The cost-effectiveness of arthroscopic partial meniscectomy: comparing apples and oranges

Cost-effectiveness of smoking cessation modalities: comparing apples with oranges?

BACKGROUND Although the results of self-help and group treatments for smoking cessation are known, the cost effectiveness and participants' characteristics of these treatments remain mostly undetermined. METHODS Consecutive samples of 84 self-help manual requesters and 83 group participants in a Dutch community-based smoking cessation program were subjected to telephone interviews before trea...

Comparing apples and oranges ...

The most comprehensive and often-cited statistic about the U.S. economy is gross domestic product (GDP), the sum of all goods and services produced in the United States. Estimates of GDP are the featured statistics in the National Income and Product Accounts, the construction of which involves the collection and aggregation of an immense amount of data. In the construction of real GDP, complica...

Comparing apples and oranges.

Arthroscopic , Open Partial , and Total Meniscectomy

The results of three different types of meniscectomy have been compared in 219 knees, 71 treated by arthroscopic partial meniscectomy, 45 treated by open partial meniscectomy, and 103 treated by open total meniscectomy, with a mean follow-up of 4.3 years. Knees which had undergone previous operations or had other simultaneous operative procedures or ligamentous damage were excluded. Knees with ...

Comparing Apples to Apples or Apples to Oranges: The Role of Mental Representation in Choice Difficulty

Representation Concrete Representation Abstract Representation Concrete Representation Noncomparable • Comparable Noncomparable • Comparable Comparing Apples to Apples or Apples to Oranges 509 Moreover, we established that this mediation was indeed significant, because the bias-corrected confidence interval (CI) of the bootstrapping mediation test (Preacher and Hayes 2008) did not include zero ...