E J Beck
St Mary's Hospital
19 Papers
436 Citations
E J Beck is an academic researcher from St Mary's Hospital. The author has contributed to research in topics: Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) & Cost effectiveness. The author has an hindex of 11, co-authored 19 publications. Previous affiliations of E J Beck include University of Groningen.
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Papers
Changing disease patterns in patients with AIDS in a referral centre in the United Kingdom: the changing face of AIDS.
TL;DR: Research should be directed towards developing effective treatments for the opportunist infections which are currently more difficult to treat, the secondary malignancies of AIDS, as well as more effective immunorestorative treatments.
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Universal HIV screening of pregnant women in England: cost effectiveness analysis
Maarten J. Postma,E J Beck,S Mandalia,Lorraine Sherr,M. D. S. Walters,H Houweling,Johannes C. Jager +6 more
TL;DR: The results confirm recent recommendations that universal, voluntary antenatal HIV screening should be implemented in the London area and serious consideration of the policy should be given for other areas in England depending on local prevalence and screening costs.
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Changing use of hospital services and costs at a London AIDS referral centre, 1983-1989.
E J Beck,Jo Kennelly,Christopher McKevitt,Luke Whitaker,Jane Wadsworth,David Miller,Charles Easmon,Anthony J. Pinching,John R.W. Harris +8 more
TL;DR: The shift from an inpatient- to an outpatient-based service has resulted in fewer patients being investigated and treated in hospital and more as outpatients, while outpatient-related costs have increased, increasing the overall contribution of drug-costs to the total cost over time.
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Universal HIV screening of pregnant women in England
Maarten J. Postma,E J Beck,Sundhiya Mandalia,Lorraine Sherr,Maaike Walters,H Houweling,Johannes C. Jager +6 more
- 19 Jun 1999
TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimate the cost effectiveness of universal, voluntary antenatal screening of pregnant women in England, based on the stage of HIV infection and calculated using data obtained from a London hospital between 1986 and 1996.
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Cost effectiveness of expanded antenatal HIV testing in London.
Maarten J. Postma,E J Beck,Catherine Hankins,Sundhiya Mandalia,Johannes C. Jager,L. T. W. De Jong-Van Den Berg,M. D. S. Walters,Lorraine Sherr +7 more
TL;DR: Estimation of cost effectiveness of expanded antenatal HIV testing in London within the framework of universal voluntary HIV screening in early pregnancy found favourable incremental cost-effectiveness estimates.
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