Impact of health care information technology on hospital productivity growth: a survey in 17 acute university hospitals.

The quantification of the added value of information technologies (IT) in the health sector is a major issue for decision-makers and health care professionals. This paper relates the application of an economic production function in hospitals with different integration levels of their clinical information systems (CIS). The study concerns 17 university hospitals within the Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris group that were followed from 1998 to 2005.

Pharmacoeconomic assessment of specific immunotherapy versus current symptomatic treatment for allergic rhinitis and asthma in France.

Objectives: The therapeutic benefit of specific immunotherapy (SIT) in allergic rhinitis and asthma has been endorsed by expert consensus. This study compared the cost/efficacy (C/E) of SIT with current symptomatic treatments (CST) for allergic rhinitis and asthma.

Methods: A C/E analysis was performed using a decision tree model.

Cost-effectiveness analysis of rituximab combined with chop for treatment of diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Purpose: To estimate the cost-effectiveness from a French payer perspective of CHOP (cyclophosphamide, doxorubicin, vincristine, and prednisone) alone compared with CHOP plus rituximab (R-CHOP) for treatment of patients with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma.

Methods: Mean patient survival, days of hospitalization, and chemotherapy costs during treatment were estimated from a Phase III trial in France, Belgium, and Switzerland. Survival during the trial was estimated using the Kaplan-Meier method; survival beyond the trial period was projected based on mortality rates from the Scottish and Newcastle Lymphoma Group database.

[Cost-effectiveness analysis of schizophrenic patient care settings: impact of an atypical antipsychotic under long-acting injection formulation].

Unlabelled: Schizophrenia is a disease affecting the young adults and amounts to approximately 300,000 people in France. The French public psychiatric sector takes care of approximately 150,000 adults schizophrenics: 50% benefit from ambulatory care, 50% are in partial or full-time hospitalization care. Schizophrenia represents the first diagnosis that psychiatric sectors take in charge.

Specific molecular interactions in Pd(II) complexes identify a new approach to the biaxial nematic phase.

Liquid-crystalline complexes of Pd(II) allow a new approach to the realisation of the biaxial nematic phase.

Differential effects of aprotinin and tranexamic acid on endotoxin desensitization of blood cells induced by circulation through an isolated extracorporeal circuit.

Objective: To compare the effects of aprotinin and tranexamic acid on blood cytokine secretion induced by the circulation of blood through an isolated extracorporeal circuit.

Design: Prospective, placebo-controlled study.

Setting: University hospital.