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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Cost-utility analysis"”.
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Optimizing Value from Cardiac Rehabilitation: A Cost-Utility Analysis Comparing Age, Sex and Clinical Subgroups
… age and sex subgroups to demonstrate how the cost-effectiveness varies. Methods: We performed a cost-utility analysis comparing cardiac rehabilitation with no cardiac rehabilitation, for patients who had a cardiac catheterization, using a health system payer perspective. The model was …
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Cost Utility Analysis of Balloon Kyphoplasty and Vertebroplasty in the Treatment of Vertebral Compression Fractures in the United States
… related quality of life and high health care costs. Balloon kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty are vertebral augmentation procedures, widely used by spine surgeons to relieve pain in these patients. A number of studies have been conducted to compare and contrast the effectiveness of both these …
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Cost-utility analysis of EML4-ALK fusion testing followed by treatment with crizotinib in patients with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)
… Molecular). In this paper, we have conducted a cost-utility analysis of EML4-ALK fusion testing of NSCLC patients with the FDA approved companion diagnostic test. Methods We constructed a Markov model to conduct a cost-utility analysis from a health services perspective. We used a lifetime …
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A Cost Utility Analysis of Interdisciplinary Early Intervention Versus Treatment as Usual for an At-Risk Population with Acute Low Back Pain
Chronic pain is a costly and debilitating condition that has proven difficult to treat solely with medical interventions due to the complex interplay of biological, psychological, and social factors in its onset and persistence. Many studies have demonstrated the effectiveness of interdisciplinary …
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The economic and clinical outcomes and policy implications of gene expression profiling in breast cancer care
… these approaches are unknown. We compared the cost-utility of one of these genomic assays developed by investigators at the Netherlands Cancer Institute to NIH guidelines in a cohort of 44 year-old women with early stage breast cancer. We utilized a decision analytic model that was informed by …
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The Safety and Cost-Effectiveness of Carotid Angioplasty and Stenting in Calgary
Objectives To evaluate the safety and cost of carotid stenting in Calgary. Methods A cost-utility analysis from the perspective of the Canadian health care system was performed comparing stenting to endarterectomy using a decision analytic model. A prospective cohort study was done for trans …
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Assessing the Challenges of Economic Evaluation of Critical Care Outreach Services (CCOS): A Typology Approach
… research ultimately revealed how assigning costs to CCOS is complex, and highlighted just how wide-ranging the benefits of the service can be. It uncovered factors that can potentially influence CCOS effectiveness, and how CCOS in Wales continue to evolve - having a tendency to become more …
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Health Utilities in People with Chronic Hepatitis C
… and population-level health as well as conduct cost-utility analysis. Methods: We conducted three studies on health utilities in hepatitis C patients: 1) a systematic review and meta-analysis; 2) a clinical study measuring hepatitis C patients’ health utilities in hospital and community health …
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A cost-utility and budget impact analysis of long-acting insulin analogues, (determir, glargine and degludec) for the treatment of adults with T1DM in South Africa
… have subsequently been approved for use. Costutility and budget impact analyses of the newer long-acting insulin analogues detemir, glargine and degludec have yet to be performed in the South African public health sector context. Methods: A systematic search for clinical evidence was …
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Prescribed physical activity. A health economic analysis.
… is an economic burden to society. Evidence for cost effective interventions aiming at increasing physical activity (PA) level among inactive individuals is limited, why health economic evaluations are an important tool when arranging priorities in health care sector. Promoting PA among inactive …
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Humeral shaft fractures: epidemiology, outcomes and predictors of nonunion
… undertaken through a systematic review and meta-analysis of published prospective randomised controlled trials (RCTs), and then a single-centre prospective RCT (the HU-FIX Study). The primary outcome measure for these studies was the abbreviated (QuickDASH) or full Disabilities of the Arm, …
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Childhood varicella vaccination: an evaluation of clinical effectiveness, safety and cost effectiveness in Ireland
… of childhood varicella vaccination and the cost effectiveness of universal childhood varicella vaccination in Ireland. In doing so, it sought to help inform a public health policy decision regarding the addition of varicella vaccination to the childhood immunisation schedule in Ireland. …
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Contemporary challenges in clinical pharmacy practice - medicines optimisation and medication adherence
… patients receive while minimising healthcare costs. One of the top priorities in healthcare systems worldwide is to provide cost-effective healthcare and through this, to optimise healthcare resource utilisation. One of the major cost items in healthcare provision is hospitalisation and …
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Economic evaluation of cash "plus" interventions for risky sexual behaviour among adolescent girls & young women in low and middle-income countries: a systematic review
… and data were extracted into a synthesis table. Costs were adjusted to 2023 U.S. dollars (USD) to standardize economic evaluations across studies. Full and partial economic evaluations, including cost effectiveness analysis (CEA), cost-utility analysis (CUA), and cost-benefit analysis (CBA), were …
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Mehrebenen-Evaluation von Maßnahmen der betrieblichen Gesundheitsförderung
Die Dissertation beschreibt am Beispiel einer Längsschnittstudie in der Papierindustrie, wie Effekte von Maßnahmen der betrieblichen Gesundheitsförderung in geschätzten ökonomischen Nutzen übertragen werden können. Ausgangspunkt der Untersuchung ist das Variablen-Modell nach Locke und Latham …