Péter Takács, Péter Kunovszki, Valeria Timtschenko, László Fehér, Tamás Balázs, Ramóna Hegyi, Pál Czobor, István Bitter
{"title":"Comparative Effectiveness of Second Generation Long-acting Injectable Antipsychotics Based on Nationwide Database Research in Hungary: An Update.","authors":"Péter Takács, Péter Kunovszki, Valeria Timtschenko, László Fehér, Tamás Balázs, Ramóna Hegyi, Pál Czobor, István Bitter","doi":"10.1093/schizbullopen/sgac013","DOIUrl":"10.1093/schizbullopen/sgac013","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Greater 1-year and 2-year treatment continuation rates and longer median time to discontinuation for second-generation antipsychotic (SGA) long-acting injectables (LAIs) vs oral antipsychotics (OAPs) in Hungary were previously reported. This study reports an updated comparison between new LAIs vs OAPs in Hungary. De-identified claims data from Hungarian National Health Insurance Fund database of schizophrenia patients who were newly initiated on SGAs (November 01, 2016 to June 30, 2017) were retrospectively analyzed. Primary outcomes were likelihood of all-cause 1-year and 1.5-year discontinuation of newly initiated SGA and median time till discontinuation. Among 5400 patients, 3977 (73.6%) were OAP users and 1423 (26.4%) were LAI users. The 1-year continuation rate were 12.7% (risperidone)-34.1% (olanzapine) for OAPs and 26.4% (risperidone LAI)-78.6% (paliperidone 3-monthly [PP3M]) for LAIs. The 1.5-year continuation rates were 9.3%-29.5% for OAPs and 24.9%-76.4% for LAIs. Median (95% CI) time to discontinuation was 52 (33-67) days (clozapine)-152 (134-168) days (aripiprazole) for OAPs and 125 (64-196) days (risperidone LAI)-491 (250-not reached) days (aripiprazole LAI) for LAIs. All-cause discontinuation risk was significantly higher in all OAPs vs PP3M and aripiprazole LAI (<i>P</i> < .01) as well as in each LAI vs PP3M (<i>P</i> < .05). Patients switching on new LAIs from another LAI remained longer than those who switched from OAPs/no previous treatment. Results showed the advantage of LAIs over OAPs in terms of time to treatment discontinuation. Moreover, new SGA LAIs (PP3M) seem to be better than previous LAIs in terms of time to treatment discontinuation.</p>","PeriodicalId":81715,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Institute of Actuaries","volume":"97 1","pages":"sgac013"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11205877/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78632841","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Molecular domestication of transposable elements: from detrimental parasites to useful host genes.","authors":"L Sinzelle, Z Izsvák, Z Ivics","doi":"10.1007/s00018-009-8376-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s00018-009-8376-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Transposable elements (TEs) are commonly viewed as molecular parasites producing mainly neutral or deleterious effects in host genomes through their ability to move. However, during the past two decades, major interest has been focusing on the positive contribution of these elements in the evolution of gene regulation and in the creation of diverse structural host genes. Indeed, DNA transposons carry an attractive and elaborate enzymatic machinery as well as DNA components that have been co-opted in several cases by the host genome via an evolutionary process referred to as molecular domestication. A large number of transposon-derived genes known to date have been recruited by the host to function as transcriptional regulators; however, the biological role of the majority of them remains undetermined. Our knowledge on the structure, distribution, evolution and mechanism of transposons will continue to provide important contributions to our understanding of host genome functions.</p>","PeriodicalId":81715,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Institute of Actuaries","volume":"37 1","pages":"1073-93"},"PeriodicalIF":8.0,"publicationDate":"2009-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11131479/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78619854","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Better Pensions for All . By Bryn Davies (Institute for Public Policy Research, 1993) £7.50","authors":"A. Lowe","doi":"10.1017/S0020268100020382","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020268100020382","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81715,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Institute of Actuaries","volume":"121 1","pages":"615-616"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0020268100020382","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56680139","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reserving for catastrophe reinsurance","authors":"D. Craighead","doi":"10.1017/S0020268100020114","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020268100020114","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81715,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Institute of Actuaries","volume":"121 1","pages":"135-160"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0020268100020114","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56679486","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Investment — assessing a manager's skill and monitoring the risks","authors":"N. Day, S. Green, J. Plymen","doi":"10.1017/S0020268100020096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020268100020096","url":null,"abstract":"The paper proposes a new way of assessing an investment manager's skill in the day-to-day management of portfolios. The authors argue that traditional investment performance measurement techniques, whilst appropriate for many purposes, do not provide the insights necessary to judge the skill of investment managers. To judge manager skill, it is necessary to consider the activity within the portfolio in terms of the purchases, sales and trades, and to determine the value added by that activity. The paper sets out a framework by which this analysis can be carried out and, by means of examples, indicates how the results can be interpreted. The paper also explores briefly a number of other issues such as the qualitative aspects of performance monitoring. In writing the paper, the concept of risk in various guises was never far from the authors' minds, and it is true to say that the meaning of risk in the context of assessing manager skill lies at the very heart of the paper.","PeriodicalId":81715,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Institute of Actuaries","volume":"121 1","pages":"69-117"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0020268100020096","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56679026","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
E. Sherlock, H. Froggatt, N. Gillott, R. M. Harvey, J. Jenkins, D. Keeler, M. Pickford, N. H. Taylor
{"title":"Life insurance company takeovers. A Report by a Working Party of the Life Assurance Joint Committee of the Institute of Actuaries and the Faculty of Actuaries, 15 October 1993","authors":"E. Sherlock, H. Froggatt, N. Gillott, R. M. Harvey, J. Jenkins, D. Keeler, M. Pickford, N. H. Taylor","doi":"10.1017/S002026810002014X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S002026810002014X","url":null,"abstract":"The working party was required to establish what actuarial information is needed by the financial world for the proper evaluation of a bid for a quoted insurance company, and, in the light of these findings, to consider what may be required in the way of guidance to actuaries. The report considers the issuesw hich occur when life insurance companies aresu bject to takeovers and to other changes of ownership. The Takeover Code has many implications in such situations and these are discussed fully, particularly any conflicts of interest and the independence or otherwise of the actuaries involved. The interests of policyholders are considered and advice is proffered to actuaries. A Guidance Note is being issued.","PeriodicalId":81715,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Institute of Actuaries","volume":"121 1","pages":"199-258"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S002026810002014X","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56679812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Realistic reporting of life insurance company policy liabilities and profits: developments in Anglo-American countries","authors":"M. Adams, C. Scott","doi":"10.1017/S0020268100020229","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020268100020229","url":null,"abstract":"This paper examines international developments in life insurance generally accepted accounting practice (GAAP) for policy valuation and profit recognition in four major Anglo-American markets—the U.K., Australia, the U.S.A. and Canada. Each valuation method examined has its advantages and disadvantages with respect to the needs of preparers and users of the annual corporate reports of life insurance companies. The paper documents that the statutory basis and U.S. GAAP are considered to have substantive deficiencies. In contrast, the U.K. accruals method, the Australian margin on services method and Canadian GAAP have much to commend them, particularly with regard to their flexibility to accommodate valuation adjustments for unexpected events. Nevertheless, from the preparers' point of view, the systems which would have to be developed to facilitate the U.K. accruals and Australian margin on services methods would be difficult and costly to implement. Profit reporting under Canadian GAAP is also sensitive to changes in actuarial reserving assumptions. The authors conclude that, since national preferences in actuarial and accounting practices are inevitable and because the product-market structures of life insurance markets are so distinctive, international harmonisation of life office GAAP is unlikely to occur for a very long time.","PeriodicalId":81715,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Institute of Actuaries","volume":"121 1","pages":"441-458"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0020268100020229","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56679526","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the choice of bandwidth for kernel graduation","authors":"J. Gavin, S. Haberman, R. Verrall","doi":"10.1017/S0020268100020102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020268100020102","url":null,"abstract":"This paper considers cross-validation as an objective and risk-based method for selecting the smoothing parameter in a non-parametric graduation. In addition, the relative merits of two kernel estimators are compared in the context of mortality graduation. Finally, it is well known in the statistical literature that the use of theoretically superior kernels is not as important as the choice of bandwidth. Our results support this conclusion, suggesting that the focus on such weights is misguided in the actuarial textbooks on moving weighted averages.","PeriodicalId":81715,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Institute of Actuaries","volume":"121 1","pages":"119-134"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0020268100020102","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56679122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Nuttall, R. Blackwood, B. Bussell, J. Cliff, M. J. Cornall, A. Cowley, P. Gatenby, J. Webber
{"title":"Financing long-term care in Great Britain","authors":"S. Nuttall, R. Blackwood, B. Bussell, J. Cliff, M. J. Cornall, A. Cowley, P. Gatenby, J. Webber","doi":"10.1017/S0020268100020084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020268100020084","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81715,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Institute of Actuaries","volume":"121 1","pages":"1-68"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0020268100020084","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56679467","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"General Insurance Study Group, Convention, 27–29 October 1993","authors":"C. Czapiewski","doi":"10.1017/S0020268100020242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S0020268100020242","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":81715,"journal":{"name":"Journal of the Institute of Actuaries","volume":"121 1","pages":"473-482"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1994-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1017/S0020268100020242","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56679566","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}