These health state utility values were applied to health economic models based on levels of visual acuity (which represents a person's ability to resolve fine detail).
Adenovirus-mediated epidemic keratoconjunctivitis (EKC) is associated with significant morbidity and possible long term consequences on visual acuity, and thus causes considerable economic losses.
The primary clinical target is the improvement of best corrected visual acuity, while the primary health economic target is cost reduction without a loss in health gain as measured by a change in visual acuity or by quality adjusted life years.
Developmental dyslexia (DD [MIM 127700]) is a specific impairment in reading ability not directly related to intelligence, socio-economic background, general motivation, educational opportunity or sensory acuity [1], [2], [3], [4], [5], [6].
A patient-level health economic state transition model based on levels of visual acuity in the better seeing eye was constructed to simulate the costs and consequences of treating patients with nAMD with ranibizumab.
Within the cartography provided -- in a piece that analyzes hell with all the journalistic acuity that The Economist might devote to Greece's economic problems (another hell) -- are some memorable locutions: "Hell itself seemed poised uneasily on the very edge of time.
These (independent) variables were: gender, life events, socio-economic status, age at interview, age at diagnosis, type of treatment, heredity, laterality, visual acuity, subjective experience of impairment, and experience of being bullied in childhood.
Secondary outcomes include UDVA at 12 months, corrected distance visual acuity at 3 and 12 months, complications, endothelial cell loss, patient-reported outcome measures and a health economic analysis conforming to National Institute for Health and Care Excellence standards.
Last year, Tea Party Members of Congress temporarily persuaded GOP leadership to abandon their usual political acuity and launch a series of attacks on the Lacey Act, one of America's most successful environmental and economic laws.
