Duringthepast fewdecades,significantbiomedicaladvances have increased diagnostic and treatment effectiveness.Recentresearchfrompsychologyprovidesaspecialopportunitytoaddvaluetothetraditionalcornerstone ofmedicine: the patient-clinician relationship. What is it about the conversation between patient and physician that gives it therapeutic value? At the most basic level, physicians and other clin...

OBJECTIVE Anorexia nervosa (AN) is an expensive-to-treat illness with a high mortality rate. Some health care systems have limited the amount of treatment provided for AN despite the lack of clearly documented efficacy for these limited-intensity approaches. One method that can inform decisions about AN treatment is cost-effectiveness analysis. METHOD Cost-modeling analysis was used to estima...

BACKGROUND A recent simulation concluded that the serotonin-specific reuptake inhibitor (SSRI) paroxetine was more cost-effective than the tricyclic antidepressant (TCA) imipramine, despite substantially higher medication acquisition costs. METHOD We replicated the previous model and revised key assumptions which drove the results. The revised model was subjected to sensitivity analysis. RE...

Cost-effectiveness analysis, a set of methods for estimating the costs and health effects of medical interventions, helps decision makers to compare alternative treatments and to decide which interventions are appropriate in which situations. This article outlines some fundamental principles of cost-effectiveness analysis and discusses the characteristics necessary if alternative therapies are ...

We present the case of a male patient suffering from a primary amyloidosis and a nephrotic syndrome who came to dietotherapy clinic. In the first visit we made a nutritional record including an anthropometric evaluation, body composition, biochemistry, and food intake. The patient had an excess of body water, proteinuria, low plasma protein, albumin, prealbumin and HDL cholesterol levels, and h...

Idiopathic nephrotic syndrome (INS) is a common chronic illness characterized by massive proteinuria and hypo-albuminemia in children. Baseline treatment is 6 month-corticotherapy. In cases of steroid resistant/dependent INS several types of treatment are used, including course of methyloprednisolone "pulses", alkylating agents, cyclosporin A, levamisole and mycophenolate mofetil. It has been s...

Materials and methods A computer aided search of Pub Med database was performed using the keywords, and in September 2009. From the retrieved abstracts, studies comparing the results of brace treatment for AIS with no-treatment, other conservative treatments, or surgery were selected. Extracted outcomes including radiological curve progression, incidence of surgery, and qual...

background and aims: nowadays, hypnosis has opened its position in the medical community. based on controlled trials, hypnosis has been superior compared to other interventional procedures to reduce acute pain. this investigation aims to determine the effectiveness of hypnosis in the treatment of pain and enhancing mental performance in iran, using the meta-analysis method. methods: the search ...