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Essential emergency and critical care as a health system response to critical illness and the COVID19 pandemic: what does it cost?

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2023
Essential Emergency and Critical Care (EECC) is a novel approach to the care of critically ill patients, focusing on first-tier, effective, low-cost, life-saving care and designed to be feasible even in low-resourced and low-staffed settings.
Lorna Guinness, Angela Kairu, August Kuwawenaruwa, Karima Khalid, Khamis Awadh, Vincent Were, Edwine Barasa, Hiral Shah, Peter Baker, Carl Otto Schell, Tim Baker   +10 more
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Modelling the cost effectiveness of interferon beta and glatiramer acetate in the management of multiple sclerosis [PDF]

, 2003
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the cost effectiveness of four disease modifying treatments (interferon betas and glatiramer acetate) for relapsing remitting and secondary progressive multiple sclerosis in the United Kingdom. DESIGN: Modelling cost effectiveness.
Abrams, K., Chilcott, J., Claxton, K., Cooper, N.J., McCabe, C., O'Hagan, A., Tappenden, P.   +6 more
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Healthcare costs for hospitalized COVID-19 patients in a Japanese university hospital: a cross-sectional study

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2023
Background A health-economic evaluation related to COVID-19 is urgently needed to allocate healthcare resources efficiently; however, relevant medical cost data in Japan concerning COVID-19 are scarce.
Shunsuke Uno, Rei Goto, Kimiko Honda, Machiko Tokuda, Hirofumi Kamata, Shotaro Chubachi, Ryo Yamamoto, Yukio Sato, Koichiro Homma, Sho Uchida, Ho Namkoong, Yoshifumi Uwamino, Junichi Sasaki, Koichi Fukunaga, Naoki Hasegawa   +14 more
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Heterogeneity in health funding and disparities in health outcome: a comparison between high focus and non-high focus states in India

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2023
Background The Central Government of India introduced the National Health Mission (NHM) in 2005 to improve health outcomes by enhancing publicly financed (government) health expenditure and health infrastructure at the state level.
Ranjan Kumar Mohanty, Deepak Kumar Behera   +1 more
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Cost effectiveness of treatments for wet age-related macular degeneration [PDF]

, 2011
Age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is a leading cause of blindness in people aged >= 50 years. Wet AMD in particular has a major impact on patient quality of life and imposes substantial burdens on healthcare systems.
Annemans, Lieven, Gallagher, Meghan, Mitchell, Paul, Thomas, Simu, White, Richard   +4 more
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Likelihood of residential aged care use in later life: a simple approach to estimation with international comparison

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2015
Objectives: In New Zealand (NZ), place of death among decedents aged 65+ years has been reported as residential aged care (RAC, 38%), acute hospital (34%) or elsewhere (28%). However, lifetime risk of use of RAC (or nursing homes) is unknown.
Joanna B. Broad, Toni Ashton, Merryn Gott, Heather McLeod, Peter B. Davis, Martin J. Connolly   +5 more
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Assessing the external validity of model-based estimates of the incidence of heart attack in England: a modelling study

BMC Public Health, 2016
Background The DisMod II model is designed to estimate epidemiological parameters on diseases where measured data are incomplete and has been used to provide estimates of disease incidence for the Global Burden of Disease study.
Peter Scarborough, Kate Smolina, Anja Mizdrak, Linda Cobiac, Adam Briggs   +4 more
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Cost-Effectiveness Analysis [PDF]

, 2019
Abstract Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) is a form of economic evaluation concerned with efficiency: that is, with achieving the most for the resources (“value for money”). This chapter explains the appeal and relevance of CEA and describes its use in localized and strategic decision-making.
Lauer, Jeremy, Bertram, Melanie, Morton, Alec   +2 more
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Cost-effectiveness analysis of malaria rapid diagnostic tests for appropriate treatment of malaria at the community level in Uganda. [PDF]

In Sub-Saharan Africa, malaria remains a major cause of morbidity and mortality among children under 5, due to lack of access to prompt and appropriate diagnosis and treatment.
Clarke, Siân E, Hansen, Kristian S, Lal, Sham, Magnussen, Pascal, Ndyomugyenyi, Richard   +4 more
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(Correcting) misdiagnoses of asthma: A cost effectiveness analysis [PDF]

, 2011
This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work ...
Amanda Sumner, BN Awadh, Douglas Coyle, HM Sharpe, K Bahadori, Katherine Vandemheen, KB Weiss, L McKnight-Eily, LC O'Dowd, MD Krahn, MG Cisternas, MK Campbell, Ontario Drug Benefit Formulary/Comparative Drug Index, P Kenny, R Jin, RB Haynes, S Diaz-Lobato, S Kamble, SD Aaron, Shawn Aaron, Smita Pakhale, SP Corrigan, Statistics Canada, VP Luks, WJ Ungar   +24 more
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