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1. Full Text Need for Multicriteria Evaluation of Generic Drug Policies
by Kaló, Zoltán, MD, MSc, PhD and Holtorf, Anke-Peggy, PhD, MBA and Alfonso-Cristancho, Rafael, MD, MSc, PhD and Shen, Jie, MSc, MBA and Ágh, Tamás, MD, MSc, PhD and Inotai, András, PharmD, PhD and Brixner, Diana, RPh, PhD
Value in health, ISSN 1098-3015, 2015, Volume 18, Issue 2, pp. 346 - 351
Internal Medicine | generic drug | multicriteria decision analysis | drug policies | real-world evidence | adherence | price erosion | Economics | Social Sciences | Life Sciences & Biomedicine | Health Care Sciences & Services | Business & Economics | Health Policy & Services | Science & Technology | Health Services Needs and Demand - standards | Health Policy | Drug Evaluation - standards | Humans | Drugs, Generic - standards | Drugs, Generic - therapeutic use | Index Medicus
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2. Full Text Implementation of a “real-world” learning health care system: Washington state's Comparative Effectiveness Research Translation Network (CERTAIN)
by Flum, David R., MD, MPH and Alfonso-Cristancho, Rafael, MD, MSc, PhD and Devine, Emily B., PharmD, PhD, MBA and Devlin, Allison, MS and Farrokhi, Ellen, MD and Tarczy-Hornoch, Peter, MD and Kessler, Larry, ScD and Lavallee, Danielle, PharmD, PhD and Patrick, Donald L., PhD and Gore, John L., MD and Sullivan, Sean D., PhD and CERTAIN Collaborative
Surgery, ISSN 0039-6060, 2014, Volume 155, Issue 5, pp. 860 - 866
Surgery | Life Sciences & Biomedicine | Science & Technology | Learning | Community Networks | Translational Medical Research - organization & administration | Delivery of Health Care, Integrated - organization & administration | Delivery of Health Care - organization & administration | Humans | Comparative Effectiveness Research - organization & administration | Practice Patterns, Physicians | Delivery of Health Care - trends | Index Medicus | Abridged Index Medicus
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3. Full Text Comparative Effectiveness of Mepolizumab and Omalizumab in Severe Asthma: An Indirect Comparison
by Stynes, Gillian and Cockle, Sarah and Gunsoy, Necdet, PhD and Park, Daniel C and Wex, Jaro and Wilson, Jenny and Bradford, Eric, MD and Albers, Frank C., MD, PhD and Alfonso-Cristancho, Rafael, MD, PhD, MSc
Journal of allergy and clinical immunology, ISSN 0091-6749, 2016, Volume 137, Issue 2, pp. AB82 - AB82
Allergy and Immunology | Comparative analysis | Asthma
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4. Full Text Ninety-Day Costs of Video-Assisted Thoracic Surgery Versus Open Lobectomy for Lung Cancer
by Farjah, Farhood, MD, MPH and Backhus, Leah M., MD and Varghese, Thomas K., MD, MS and Mulligan, Michael S., MD and M. Cheng, Aaron, MD and Alfonso-Cristancho, Rafael, MD, PhD and Flum, David R., MD, MPH and Wood, Douglas E., MD
The Annals of thoracic surgery, ISSN 0003-4975, 2014, Volume 98, Issue 1, pp. 191 - 196
Surgery | Cardiothoracic Surgery | Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems | Respiratory System | Life Sciences & Biomedicine | Cardiovascular System & Cardiology | Science & Technology | Hospital Costs - statistics & numerical data | Pneumonectomy - economics | Follow-Up Studies | Length of Stay - economics | Humans | Middle Aged | Male | Washington | Young Adult | Thoracic Surgery, Video-Assisted - economics | Thoracotomy - economics | Time Factors | Adolescent | Aged, 80 and over | Adult | Female | Lung Neoplasms - surgery | Aged | Lung Neoplasms - economics | Retrospective Studies | Lung cancer | Index Medicus | Abridged Index Medicus
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5. Full Text Assessing surgeon behavior change after anastomotic leak in colorectal surgery
by Simianu, Vlad V., MD, MPH and Basu, Anirban, PhD and Alfonso-Cristancho, Rafael, MD, MSc, PhD and Thirlby, Richard C., MD and Flaxman, Abraham D., PhD and Flum, David R., MD, MPH
The Journal of surgical research, ISSN 0022-4804, 2016, Volume 205, Issue 2, pp. 378 - 383
Surgery | Leak testing | Recency effect | Colon and rectal surgery | Decision making | Anastomotic leak | Life Sciences & Biomedicine | Science & Technology | Prospective Studies | Humans | Middle Aged | Male | Anastomotic Leak - diagnosis | Surgeons - psychology | Colon - surgery | Washington | Young Adult | Practice Patterns, Physicians' - statistics & numerical data | Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care) | Anastomotic Leak - prevention & control | Clinical Decision-Making | Adolescent | Aged, 80 and over | Adult | Female | Aged | Rectum - surgery | Elective Surgical Procedures | Physicians | Decision-making | Hospitals | Index Medicus | colon and rectal surgery | leak testing | recency effect | anastomotic leak | decision making
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6. Full Text Financial Benefit of a Smoking Cessation Program Prior to Elective Colorectal Surgery
by Gaskill, Cameron E., MD MPH and Kling, Catherine E., MD MPH and Varghese, Thomas K., MD MS and Veenstra, David L., PharmD PhD and Thirlby, Richard C., MD and Flum, David R., MD MPH and Alfonso-Cristancho, Rafael, MD MSc PhD
The Journal of surgical research, ISSN 0022-4804, 2017, Volume 215, pp. 183 - 189
Surgery | Tobacco | Colorectal | Smoking cessation program | Cost | Life Sciences & Biomedicine | Science & Technology | Postoperative Complications - economics | Hospital Costs - statistics & numerical data | Humans | Middle Aged | Smoking Cessation - economics | Decision Support Techniques | Postoperative Complications - prevention & control | Preoperative Care - economics | Patient Readmission - economics | Linear Models | Male | Models, Economic | Smoking Cessation - methods | Colon - surgery | Washington | Cost-Benefit Analysis | Adult | Female | Aged | Rectum - surgery | Patient Readmission - statistics & numerical data | Cost Savings - statistics & numerical data | Elective Surgical Procedures | Preoperative Care - methods | Smoking cessation programs | Medicine, Experimental | Medical research | Index Medicus | Smoking Cessation Program
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7. Full Text Association between Health-Related Quality of Life and Body Mass After Adjustable Gastric Banding: A Nonlinear Approach
by Lin, Vincent W., PharmD, MS and Wong, Edwin S., PhD and Wright, Andrew, MD and Flum, David R., MD, MPH and Garrison, Louis P., PhD and Alfonso-Cristancho, Rafael, MD, MSc, PhD and Sullivan, Sean D., PhD
Value in health, ISSN 1098-3015, 2013, Volume 16, Issue 5, pp. 823 - 829
Internal Medicine | EQ-5D | health-related quality of life | gastric banding | health utility | obesity | Economics | Social Sciences | Life Sciences & Biomedicine | Health Care Sciences & Services | Business & Economics | Health Policy & Services | Science & Technology | Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine | Public health. Hygiene | General aspects | Miscellaneous | Planification. Prevention (methods). Intervention. Evaluation | Biological and medical sciences | Medical sciences | Bariatric Surgery - psychology | Body Mass Index | Obesity - surgery | Overweight - surgery | Cross-Sectional Studies | Obesity - psychology | Humans | Middle Aged | Male | Socioeconomic Factors | Quality of Life | Adult | Female | Overweight - psychology | Bariatric Surgery - methods | Index Medicus
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8. Full Text SAT0223 Indirect comparative clinical effectiveness of intravenous and subcutaneous formulations of belimumab for the treatment of adult patients with active, autoantibody-positive systemic lupus erythematosus with high disease activity
by Parks, D and Ramachandran, S and Kurtinecz, M and Asukai, Y and Alfonso-Cristancho, R
Annals of the rheumatic diseases, ISSN 0003-4967, 06/2017, Volume 76, Issue Suppl 2, p. 857
Lupus | Autoantibodies | Systemic lupus erythematosus | Intravenous administration | Clinical trials | Stockholders | Binomial distribution | Anti-DNA antibodies | Bayesian analysis | Patients
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9. Full Text The impact of accreditation on safety and cost of bariatric surgery
by Kwon, Steve, MD, MPH and Wang, Bruce, PhD and He, Hao, MS and Wong, Edwin, PhD and Alfonso-Cristancho, Rafael, MD, MS and Sullivan, Sean, PhD and Flum, David R., MD, MPH, FACS
Journal of the American College of Surgeons, ISSN 1072-7515, 2012, Volume 215, Issue 3, pp. S102 - S102
Surgery
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10. Full Text Recent Cigarette Smoking Cessation and Surgical Outcomes
by Kling, Catherine E., MD and Varghese, Thomas K., MD, MS, FACS and Kwon, Steven, MD, MPH and Alfonso-Cristancho, Rafael, MD, MSc, PhD and Lee, Michael, MD and Farrokhi, Ellen, MD, MPH and Rogers, Terry, MD and Flum, David R., MD, MPH, FACS
Journal of the American College of Surgeons, ISSN 1072-7515, 2014, Volume 219, Issue 3, pp. S16 - S16
Surgery
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11. Full Text Process-of-Care Utilization in Lung Cancer Surgery
by Flanagan, Meghan R., MD and Varghese, Thomas K., MD, MS, FACS and Backhus, Leah M., MD, MPH, FACS and Wood, Douglas E., MD and Mulligan, Michael S., MD, FACS and Cheng, Aaron M., MD, FACS and Alfonso-Cristancho, Rafael, MD, MSc, PhD and Flum, David R., MD, MPH, FACS and Farjah, Farhood, MD, MPH
Journal of the American College of Surgeons, ISSN 1072-7515, 2014, Volume 219, Issue 3, pp. S113 - S113
Surgery
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12. Full Text Comparative effectiveness of mepolizumab and omalizumab in severe asthma: An indirect treatment comparison
by Cockle, Sarah M and Stynes, Gillian and Gunsoy, Necdet B and Parks, Daniel and Alfonso-Cristancho, Rafael and Wex, Jaro and Bradford, Eric S and Albers, Frank C and Willson, Jenny
Respiratory medicine, ISSN 0954-6111, 2016, Volume 123, pp. 140 - 148
Pulmonary/Respiratory | Omalizumab | Exacerbations | Tolerability | Lung function | Severe asthma | Mepolizumab | Cardiac & Cardiovascular Systems | Respiratory System | Life Sciences & Biomedicine | Cardiovascular System & Cardiology | Science & Technology | Anti-Asthmatic Agents - adverse effects | Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized - adverse effects | Antibodies, Monoclonal, Humanized - therapeutic use | Asthma - physiopathology | Comparative Effectiveness Research - methods | Forced Expiratory Volume - drug effects | Omalizumab - adverse effects | Anti-Asthmatic Agents - therapeutic use | Humans | Omalizumab - therapeutic use | Asthma - drug therapy | Drug therapy | Comparative analysis | Asthma | Studies | Literature reviews | Immunoglobulins | Clinical trials | Hospitalization | Patients | Allergies | Index Medicus
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13. Full Text Examining the BMI-mortality relationship using fractional polynomials
by Wong, Edwin S and Wang, Bruce Cm and Garrison, Louis P and Alfonso-Cristancho, Rafael and Flum, David R and Arterburn, David E and Sullivan, Sean D
BMC medical research methodology, ISSN 1471-2288, 2011, Volume 11, Issue 1, pp. 175 - 175
Life Sciences & Biomedicine | Health Care Sciences & Services | Science & Technology | Body Mass Index | United States - epidemiology | Cross-Sectional Studies | Follow-Up Studies | Humans | Middle Aged | Obesity - ethnology | Logistic Models | Male | Mortality - trends | Models, Statistical | Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.) | Health Surveys | Smoking - epidemiology | Obesity - epidemiology | Adult | Cause of Death - trends | Female | Databases, Factual | Mortality - ethnology | Body mass index | Obesity | Usage | Prognosis | Mortality | Polynomials | Research | Health aspects | Studies | Surgical outcomes | Medical research | Weight control | Health services | Older people | Gender | Manuscripts | Logistics | Index Medicus
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14. Full Text Cost-effectiveness of bariatric surgical procedures for the treatment of severe obesity
by Bruce C. M. Wang and Edwin S. Wong and Rafael Alfonso-Cristancho and Hao He and David R. Flum and David E. Arterburn and Louis P. Garrison and Sean D. Sullivan
The European journal of health economics, ISSN 1618-7598, 4/2014, Volume 15, Issue 3, pp. 253 - 263
Body mass index | Obesity | Health care costs | Health outcomes | Cost estimation models | Utilities costs | Bariatric surgery | Surgical procedures | Modeling | Bariatrics | Economic Policy | Public Health | Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences | Health Informatics | I10 | Medicine & Public Health | Statistics for Business/Economics/Mathematical Finance/Insurance | QALY | Public Finance & Economics | D81 | Cost-effectiveness | D61 | Economics | Social Sciences | Life Sciences & Biomedicine | Business & Economics | Health Care Sciences & Services | Health Policy & Services | Science & Technology | Body Mass Index | Quality-Adjusted Life Years | Bariatric Surgery - economics | Obesity, Morbid - surgery | Humans | Middle Aged | Models, Economic | Life Expectancy | Computer Simulation | Cost-Benefit Analysis | Quality of Life | Female | Bariatric Surgery - methods | Health aspects | Surgery | Analysis | Costs | Health economics | Effectiveness | Statistical analysis | Discount rates | Simulation | Gastrointestinal surgery | Index Medicus
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