Laszlo Gulacsi

Laszlo Gulacsi
Corvinus University of Budapest · Department of Health Economics, Faculty of Economics

MD, MSc, PhD, PhD, PhD, PhD, habil,

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Background The demand for high-quality systematic literature reviews (SRs) for evidence-based medical decision-making is growing. SRs are costly and require the scarce resource of highly skilled reviewers. Automation technology has been proposed to save workload and expedite the SR workflow. We aimed to provide a comprehensive overview of SR automa...
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Background The aim of this study was to assess social preferences for two different advanced digital health technologies and investigate the contextual dependency of the preferences. Methods A cross-sectional online survey was performed among the general population of Hungary aged 40 years and over. Participants were asked to imagine that they nee...
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Background: Despite the growing uptake of smart technologies in pediatric type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) care, little is known about caregiving parents’ skills to deal with electronic health information sources. Objective: We aimed to assess the electronic health literacy of parents caring for children with T1DM and investigate its associations w...
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University rankings are gaining importance worldwide. While the top-ranked universities are the subject of numerous academic publications, very little literature is available on universities in the lower two-thirds of the ranking list. In this study, we analysed the sensitivity of year to year changes in position in the Times Higher Education World...
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eHealth literacy has been been seen as an influencing factor of population health, while supporting evidence is mixed. We aimed to explore the association between eHealth literacy and health-related quality of life, with focus on the mediating effect of health behaviours and subgroup differences concerning health status and sociodemographic charact...
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BACKGROUND Despite the growing uptake of smart technologies in pediatric type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1DM) care, little is known about caregiving parents’ skills to deal with electronic health information sources. OBJECTIVE We aimed to assess the electronic health literacy of parents caring for children with T1DM and investigate its associations wit...
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italic xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">Background: Human workers are indispensable in the human–cyber-physical system in the forthcoming Industry 5.0. As inappropriate work content induces stress and harmful effects on human performance, engineering applications search for a physiological i...
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University rankings are gaining importance worldwide. While the top-ranked universities are the subject of numerous academic publications, very little literature is available on universities in the lower two-thirds of the ranking list. In this study, we analysed the sensitivity of year to year changes in position in the Times Higher Education World...
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Background Reporting guidelines developed for medical artificial intelligence (AI) studies are structured tools that address general and/or AI-specific methodological and reporting issues. We aimed to systematically review published medical AI reporting guidelines and checklists and evaluate aspects that can support the choice of the tool in a part...
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Background The demand for high quality systematic literature reviews (SLRs) is growing for evidence-based medical decision making. SLRs are costly and require the scarce resource of highly skilled reviewers. Automation technology has been proposed to save workload and expedite the SLR workflow. Objectives We aimed to provide a comprehensive overvie...
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With the accelerating adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning in medicine, algorithmic fairness and the demonstration of the validity, accuracy and clinical relevance of models are becoming increasingly important. EQ-5D-5L is one of the most widely used instruments for measuring health-related quality of life. For the evaluation, s...
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Background Implantable medical devices (IMDs) are medical instruments embedded inside the body. Well-informed and empowered patients living with IMDs are key players of improving IMD-related patient safety and health outcomes. However, little is known about IMD patients’ epidemiology, characteristics, and current awareness levels. Our primary aim w...
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BACKGROUND Pediatric diabetes is among the leading areas that adopt digital technologies and intelligent devices. However, there has been growing concern about the transparency, replicabiliby, biasedness and overall validity of research in the field of medical artificial intelligence and machine learning. OBJECTIVE To systematically review the rep...
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Background Diabetes mellitus (DM) is a major health concern among children with the widespread adoption of advanced technologies. However, concerns are growing about the transparency, replicability, biasedness, and overall validity of artificial intelligence studies in medicine. Objective We aimed to systematically review the reporting quality of...
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The authors of this manuscript are representatives of different subdisciplines of medicine, all of them are experienced researchers. As of their origin, they are practicing doctors from the primary care and from the clinical/hospital setting, diagnostics experts, researchers from healthcare management, health economics, representatives of patients'...
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Background: The introduction of new medical technologies such as sensors has accelerated the process of collecting patient data for relevant clinical decisions, which has led to the introduction of a new technology known as digital biomarkers. Objective: This study aims to assess the methodological quality and quality of evidence from meta-analyse...
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Background: Sensors and digital devices have revolutionized the measurement, collection, and storage of behavioral and physiological data, leading to the new term digital biomarkers. Objective: This study aimed to investigate the scope of clinical evidence covered by systematic reviews (SRs) of randomized controlled trials involving digital biomar...
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Background Acceptable health and sufficientarianism are emerging concepts in health resource allocation. We defined acceptability as the proportion of the general population who consider a health state acceptable for a given age. Previous studies surveyed the acceptability of health problems separately per EQ-5D-3L domain, while the acceptability o...
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Background The introduction of new medical technologies such as sensors has accelerated the process of collecting patient data for relevant clinical decisions, which has led to the introduction of a new technology known as digital biomarkers. Objective This study aims to assess the methodological quality and quality of evidence from meta-analyses...
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Background: In the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) the scarcity of local cost data is a key barrier to conducting health economic evaluations. We systematically reviewed reports of disease-related costs from MENA and analysed their transferability within the region. Methods: We searched PubMed and included full text English papers that repor...
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Background: Digital biomarkers are defined as objective, quantifiable, physiological, and behavioral data that are collected and measured using digital devices such as portables, wearables, implantables, or digestibles. For their widespread adoption in publicly financed health care systems, it is important to understand how their benefits translate...
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Background Healthy life expectancy (HLE) is becoming an important indicator of population health. While actuarial estimates of HLE are frequently studied, there is scarcity of research on the subjective expectations of people about their HLE. The objective of this study is to compare actuarial and subjective HLE (sHLE) estimates in the ≥50-year-old...
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Objectives This study aimed to evaluate the performance of machine learning and regression methods in the prediction of 3-level version of EQ-5D (EQ-5D-3L) index scores from a large diverse data set. Methods A total of 30 studies from 3 countries were combined. Predictions were performed via eXtreme Gradient Boosting classification (XGBC), eXtreme...
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Background Patient activation comprises the skills, knowledge and motivation necessary for patients’ effective contribution to their care. We adapted and validated the 13-item Patient Activation Measure (PAM-13) in the ≥ 40 years old Hungarian general population. Methods A cross-sectional web survey was conducted among 900 respondents selected fro...
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BACKGROUND Sensors and digital devices have revolutionized the process of measuring, collecting, and storing health data. Digital biomarkers are defined as objective, quantifiable, physiological, and behavioral measures contained in digital devices that are portable, wearable, implantable, or digestible. The clinical utility of digital biomarkers i...
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Background Sensors and digital devices have revolutionized the measurement, collection, and storage of behavioral and physiological data, leading to the new term digital biomarkers. Objective This study aimed to investigate the scope of clinical evidence covered by systematic reviews (SRs) of randomized controlled trials involving digital biomarke...
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Objective The ICECAP-A and ICECAP-O were validated as capability wellbeing measures of adults aged 18 + and 65 + years, respectively. We aimed to compare their measurement properties in age group 50–70. Methods Data were derived from a cross-sectional survey among a sample representative for the adult Hungarian population. Respondents aged between...
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Objectives The ICEpop CAPability measure for Adults (ICECAP-A) was developed to assess the capability well-being of adults for use in economic evaluations. Currently, ICECAP-A tariffs are available only for the UK population. The objectives of this study were to develop a Hungarian tariff set for the ICECAP-A instrument and to explore intercountry...
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A biotechnológia, mely élő vagy élettelen anyagokat változtat meg tudás, termékek vagy szolgáltatások létrehozásáért, a nemzetközi versenyképességet meghatározó alaptechnológiák egyike. A Magyar Biotechnológiai Szövetség által koordinált BNTP (Biotechnológiai Nemzeti Technológiai Platform) 2009-ben határozta meg a biotechnológiai ipar 2030-ra elére...
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Összefoglaló. Bevezetés: A lakosság idősödésével növekvő betegségteher egyéni és társadalmi szinten is fokozódó nyomást jelent. Célkitűzés: Felmérni a hazai általános felnőtt lakosságnak a korlátozottsággal, a gondozási igényekkel és a munkavégzéssel kapcsolatos időskori szubjektív várakozásait. Módszer: Online keresztmetszeti felmérést végeztünk....
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Background The capability approach has received increasing attention in wellbeing measurement in the past years, but it has still remained an underexplored area in musculoskeletal (MSK) health. Objective We aimed to explore the capability wellbeing in relation to MSK health, by measuring the associations between the Health Assessment Questionnaire...
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Background: Hidradenitis suppurativa (HS) is a potentially disabling, chronic inflammatory skin disease affecting up to 1% of the population in Europe. This study aims to assess the cost-of-illness of HS from a societal perspective in Hungary, and to analyse the predictors of costs. Methods: A multicentre, cross-sectional cost-of-illness study was...
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Background Digital biomarkers are defined as objective, quantifiable, physiological, and behavioral data that are collected and measured using digital devices such as portables, wearables, implantables, or digestibles. For their widespread adoption in publicly financed health care systems, it is important to understand how their benefits translate...
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BACKGROUND Digital biomarkers are defined as objective, quantifiable, physiological, and behavioral data that are collected and measured using digital devices such as portables, wearables, implantables, or digestibles. For their widespread adoption in publicly financed health care systems, it is important to understand how their benefits translate...
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1) Background: System-level data on waiting time in the outpatient setting in Hungary is scarce. The objective of the study was to explore self-reported waiting time for an appointment and at a doctor's office. (2) Methods: An online, cross-sectional, self-administered survey was carried out in 2019 in Hungary among a representative sample (n = 100...
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Purpose: The CarerQol instrument has been designed and validated as an instrument able to measure both the positive and the negative impacts of caregiving on the quality of life of informal caregivers (CarerQol-7D), as well as their general happiness (CarerQol-VAS). The aim of this study was to assess the construct validity of the CarerQol in the...
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OBJECTIVES: PAM-13 is a measure of the knowledge, skill, and confidence for managing one’s own health. We developed the Hungarian version of the PAM-13 instrument and tested its psychometric properties. METHODS: In linguistic adaptation and psychometric testing, we followed the WHO and COSMIN guidelines, respectively. From a commercial online panel...
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Background Patient-reported data are widely used for many purposes by different actors within a health system. However, little is known about the use of such data by health insurers. Our study aims to map the evidence on the use of patient-reported data by health insurers; to explore how collected patient-reported data are utilized; and to elucidat...
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Background: The COVID-19 pandemic is a complex global public health crisis presenting clinical, organisational and system-wide challenges. Different research perspectives on health are needed in order to manage and monitor this crisis. Performance intelligence is an approach that emphasises the need for different research perspectives in supporting...
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Background: We aimed to investigate the acceptability of imperfect health states in relation to age in Hungary and analyse its determinants. Results are contrasted to age-matched actual population health scores and to findings from a previous study in The Netherlands. Methods: A cross-sectional online survey was performed. The same survey questi...
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PurposeWe aimed to develop and assess the psychometric characteristics of the Hungarian language version of two well-being capability measures, the ICEpop CAPability measure for Adults/Older people (ICECAP-A/-O), and to establish population norms.MethodsA cross-sectional survey was performed involving a representative sample of the Hungarian popula...
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Background and aims: To explore subjective health expectations (sHE) of patients with Crohn's disease (CD) for both the near future and the elderly. Method: A cross-sectional survey was performed in three gastroenterology centres in Hungary. Consecutive outpatients with CD of age ≥18 were recruited. Socio-demographic and disease characteristics...
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Objectives In a growing number of countries, patient involvement in medical decisions is considered a cornerstone of broader health policy agendas. This study seeks to explore public preferences for and experiences with participation in treatment decisions in Hungary. Methods A nationally representative online panel survey was conducted in 2019. O...
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Introduction: Health disorders may affect negatively work productivity of individuals, leading to absence from work (absenteeism) and/or decreased functioning in the workplace (presenteeism). Aim: To assess the health-related work productivity of the adult population in Hungary by the Work Productivity and Activity Impairment questionnaire (WPAI...