Daniel Pérez-Troncoso

Agency for Healthcare Quality and Evaluation of Catalonia

Background INES (INteractive model for Extrapolation of Survival and cost) provides an open-access tool powered by R that implements three-state partitioned survival models (PSM). This article describes the properties of the tool, and the situations where INES may or may not be suitable. Methods INES is designed to be used by investigators or heal...

Background INES (INteractive model for Extrapolation of Survival and cost) provides an open-access tool powered by R that implements partitioned survival models (PSM). This article describes the properties of the tool, and the situations where INES may or may not be suitable. Methods INES is designed to be used by investigators or healthcare profes...

Background Medical therapy for stroke prevention has improved significantly over the past 30 years. Recent analyses of medically treated cohorts have suggested that early rates of stroke may have reduced, and reports of the safety of carotid surgery have also shown improvements. Since the effectiveness of carotid surgery versus medical therapy was...

Aims In recent years, improvements in medical therapy for stroke prevention have emerged. Recent analyses of medically treated cohorts have suggested that early rates of stroke may have reduced, whilst reports for safety of carotid surgery have also shown improvements. Since the effectiveness of carotid surgery versus medical therapy was establishe...

Objectives Advanced therapy medicinal products (ATMPs) are drugs for human use for the treatment of chronic, degenerative, or life-threatening diseases that are based on genes, tissues, or cells. This article aimed to identify and critically review published economic analyses of ATMPs. Methods A systematic review of economic analyses of ATMPs was...

En esta investigación se determinó el perfil de SMart Ibérica (SMartib), una cooperativa de impulso empresarial (CIE) de España. Desde la website de la cooperativa, se recopiló la información pública de las 271 personas socias sobre varias variables como son la ocupación, el género y la localización. Se realizó un análisis estadístico descriptivo e...

Introduction In order to solve the problems related to prior parameter misspecification in DCEs, Bliemer and Rose (2010) proposed a sequential approach where the design is updated after each respondent. This paper tries to find a more efficient alternative sequential method since the original proposal could be very time-consuming and expensive unde...

El objetivo de la investigación fue identificar el actual tejido socio empresarial de España, así como detallar el perfil de la Empresa Social activa. En esta identificación, se planteó una investigación inductiva mediante un análisis cuantitativo a partir de fuentes secundarias, en particular, desde cuatro directorios públicos de Empresas Sociales...

Introduction: Personalised nutrition (PN) has great potential for disease prevention, particularly if coupled with the power and accessibility of mobile technology. However, success of PN interventions will depend on the willingness of users to subscribe. This study investigates the factors associated with potential users’ perceived value of PN and...

The Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of the Government of Spain pointed out that the forestry industry accentuates its great diversity of species and trees and a multifunctionality of goods and services. The contribution of the wood industry pointed to a wide range of indirect economic activity (extensive livestock farming, nature touris...

Discrete Choice Experiments (DCE) have been widely used in health economics, environmental valuation, and other disciplines. However, there is a lack of resources disclosing the whole procedure of carrying out a DCE. This document aims to assist anyone wishing to use the power of DCEs to understand people's behavior by providing a comprehensive gui...