Background Life-sustaining medical care of patients with advanced cancer at the end of life (EOL)
is costly. Patient-physician discussions about EOL wishes are associated with lower …

Importance Bariatric surgery induces significant weight loss for severely obese patients, but
there is limited evidence of the durability of weight loss compared with nonsurgical matches …

Objectives. The authors examine the relationship between three dimensions of patient
satisfaction (quality of care, hospital care, and physician time) and two ways of looking at …

Importance Accumulating evidence suggests that bariatric surgery improves survival among
patients with severe obesity, but research among veterans has shown no evidence of benefit…

OBJECTIVE: To examine the impact of morbid obesity on healthcare expenditures using a
nationally representative sample of US adults.

Objective: To compare per diem total direct, ancillary (laboratory and radiology) and
pharmacy costs of palliative care (PC) compared to usual care (UC) patients during a terminal …

ContextMany people with diabetes experience lower-limb ulcers. Footwear has been
implicated as a primary cause of foot ulcers, yet research is limited on the efficacy of shoe and …

The growing prevalence and progression of chronic kidney disease (CKD) raises concerns
about our capacity to manage its economic burden to patients, caregivers, and society. The …

Marginal effects can be used to express how the predicted probability of a binary outcome
changes with a change in a risk factor. For example, how does 1-year mortality risk change …

This paper compares two quite different approaches to estimating costs: a ‘bottom‐up’
approach, represented by the US Department of Veterans Affairs' (VA) Decision Support System …