Publications by authors named "L Pilli"
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- The paper critiques traditional healthcare models that focus only on individual patient preferences, emphasizing the importance of social influences on decision-making.
- It highlights that key social influences come from family, friends, and medical professionals, and categorizes these influences into different functions and types of information shared within social relationships.
- The study provides a framework for understanding how social factors shape healthcare choices, pointing to the need for incorporating these interdependencies into healthcare decision-making models.
Background And Purpose: High-dose chemotherapy with autologous stem cell rescue (HDCT) is currently under investigation as a potential therapy for patients with stage III HER2-negative breast cancer with homologous recombination deficiency (HRD). In addition to survival, the impact on short- and long-term side effects might influence the uptake of HDCT by healthcare professionals. As part of the SUBITO trial, we investigated healthcare professionals' treatment (outcome) preferences for patients with HRD stage III HER2-negative breast cancer and established how healthcare professionals make trade-offs between these treatment outcomes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjectives: Current choice models in healthcare (and beyond) can provide suboptimal predictions of healthcare users' decisions. One reason for such inaccuracy is that standard microeconomic theory assumes that decisions of healthcare users are made in a social vacuum. Healthcare choices, however, can in fact be (entirely) socially determined.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: The purpose of this randomized trial is to compare the efficacy of weekly once regime of neutral sodium fluoride (NaF) oral rinse with that of acidulated phosphate (APF) formulated daily mouth rinse in the reduction of white spot lesions (WSLs) associated with fixed orthodontic appliance treatment.
Methods: The participants ( = 90) of this single-center, two-arm parallel study without a control group were randomly assigned with 1 : 1 distribution to each of the two groups after the bonding of brackets. Group A/test group 1 ( = 45) was given weekly rinse of neutral sodium fluoride (0.
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- The study aimed to assess the retention practices of orthodontists in India through a questionnaire sent to members of the Indian Orthodontic Society.
- The survey found that most orthodontists preferred dual retention approaches, with fixed retainers commonly used in the mandible and a combination of fixed and removable options favored in the maxilla.
- A significant majority recommended full-time wear of maxillary retainers and suggested a duration of 2-5 years for fixed retainers.