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Cost-effectiveness of PCSK9 Inhibitor Therapy in Patients With Heterozygous Familial Hypercholesterolemia or Atherosclerotic Cardiovascular Disease.

Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), 2016
IMPORTANCE Proprotein convertase subtilisin/kexin type 9 (PCSK9) inhibitors were recently approved for lowering low-density lipoprotein cholesterol in heterozygous familial hypercholesterolemia (FH) or atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease (ASCVD) and ...
Dhruv S. Kazi, Andrew E. Moran, P. Coxson, J. Penko, D. Ollendorf, S. Pearson, J. Tice, D. Guzman, K. Bibbins‐Domingo   +8 more
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Econometric estimation of country-specific hospital costs

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2003
Information on the unit cost of inpatient and outpatient care is an essential element for costing, budgeting and economic-evaluation exercises. Many countries lack reliable estimates, however.
Murray Christopher JL, Evans David B, Adam Taghreed   +2 more
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Cost-Effectiveness of Risk Score–Stratified Hepatocellular Carcinoma Screening in Patients with Cirrhosis

Clinical and Translational Gastroenterology, 2017
OBJECTIVES: Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) surveillance with biannual ultrasound is currently recommended for all patients with cirrhosis. However, clinical implementation of this “one‐size‐fits‐all” approach is challenging as evidenced by its low ...
N. Goossens, A. Singal, Lindsay Y King, K. Andersson, B. Fuchs, C. Besa, B. Taouli, R. Chung, Y. Hoshida   +8 more
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Lifetime health effects and medical costs of integrated stroke services - a non-randomized controlled cluster-trial based life table approach

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2010
Background Economic evaluation of stroke services indicates that such services may lead to improved quality of life at affordable cost. The present study assesses lifetime health impact and cost consequences of stroke in an integrated service setting ...
Dirks Maaike, van Exel N Job A, Baeten Stefan A, Koopmanschap Marc A, Dippel Diederik WJ, Niessen Louis W   +5 more
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Cost-effectiveness of surgical interventions for the management of osteoarthritis: a systematic review of the literature

BMC Musculoskeletal Disorders, 2017
BackgroundThe primary purpose of this study is to assess the existing evidence on the cost-effectiveness of surgical interventions for the management of knee and hip osteoarthritis by systematically reviewing published economic evaluation studies ...
H. Kamaruzaman, Philip Kinghorn, Raymond Oppong   +2 more
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Combining multicriteria decision analysis, ethics and health technology assessment: applying the EVIDEM decisionmaking framework to growth hormone for Turner syndrome patients

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2010
Objectives To test and further develop a healthcare policy and clinical decision support framework using growth hormone (GH) for Turner syndrome (TS) as a complex case study.
Grégoire Jean-Pierre, Rindress Donna, Khoury Hanane, Wagner Monika, Goetghebeur Mireille M, Deal Cheri   +5 more
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Extended Cost-Effectiveness Analysis for Health Policy Assessment: A Tutorial

PharmacoEconomics (Auckland), 2016
Health policy instruments such as the public financing of health technologies (e.g., new drugs, vaccines) entail consequences in multiple domains. Fundamentally, public health policies aim at increasing the uptake of effective and efficient interventions
S. Verguet, Jane J. Kim, D. Jamison
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Biosimilar medicines and cost-effectiveness

ClinicoEconomics and Outcomes Research, 2011
Steven SimoensResearch Centre for Pharmaceutical Care and Pharmaco-economics, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, BelgiumAbstract: Given that biosimilars are agents that are similar but not identical to the ...
Steven Simoens
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Cost-effectiveness analysis of clinical specialist outreach as compared to referral system in Ethiopia: an economic evaluation

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2010
Background In countries with scarce specialized Human resource for health, patients are usually referred. The other alternative has been mobilizing specialists, clinical specialist outreach.
Nigatu Tilahun H, Kifle Yibeltal A
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Cost-effectiveness analysis of the national decentralization policy of antiretroviral treatment programme in Zambia

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation, 2017
Background In resource-limited settings with a high prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection such as Zambia, decentralization of HIV/acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (HIV/AIDS) treatment and care with effective use of resources is a ...
Shinsuke Miyano, Gardner Syakantu, Kenichi Komada, Hiroyoshi Endo, Tomohiko Sugishita   +4 more
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