Patient-focused HTAs

Patient-Focused Sedation and Analgesia

We thank Dr. Barie and his colleagues for their interest in our data.1 It is satisfying to note that other investigators also have had a similar experience regarding the influence of nonpulmonary organ dysfunction and failure on outcome in patients with respiratory failure. Contrary to our findings, they have reported2 that hepatic dysfunction had a significant influence of patient mortality in...

Patient-focused Wireless Messages for Diabetes

Results Nine scenarios were found where clinical messages might improve diabetes management. Appointment Reminders. Appointments, previsit lab draws, and preventative health tasks (quarterly diabetes visits, yearly ophthamological referral) were often forgotten. Medication Reminders. Patients desire reminders for medication refills, and for taking medicines at certain times of the day. Medicati...

The hospitalist: a patient-focused paradigm?

To be American means to long for a past that never occurred and to yearn for a homecoming to a place that never existed. There was never a time when every boyhood was a variation of Huckleberry Finn's, every family lived in a rambling Victorian house, a mother's biggest problem was whether to serve ham or roast beef at the family's Sunday dinner, and going to work meant strolling down the block...

Patient-focused delivery promises to reshape hospitals.

The HCV life cycle, a target for DAAs and HTAs

Direct-acting antiviral drugs targeting two major steps of the HCV life cycle, polyprotein processing and replication, and cyclophilin inhibitors, that target a host cell protein required to interact with the replication complex, have reached clinical development. In order to achieve a sustained virological response, that is, a cure of the HCV infection, it is necessary to shut down virus produ...