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Background Hypertension is a chronic disease that cannot be cured and can only be controlled but requires long-term treatment, even for life. The variety of antihypertensive treatments makes it necessary to adjust the choice of treatment not only in ...
Ida Adhayanti +2 more
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Cost-effectiveness analysis in oncology
Physicians are faced with a burgeoning literature of economic studies. However, most physicians have little training in evaluating economic research. Economic studies involve a comparison of the costs and benefits of alternative treatment options. To be of use for medical decision making, they should meet appropriate methodological standards.
C C, Earle, D, Coyle, W K, Evans
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Cost–Effectiveness Analysis in Pharmacogenomics [PDF]
The existence of finite healthcare budgets drives the need to consider opportunity cost and demonstrate that pharmacogenomic interventions offer added value, in terms of the relative costs and benefits, compared with current practice. This is where the framework of cost-effectiveness analysis is useful.
Katherine, Payne, Fatiha H, Shabaruddin
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QALY league table of Iran: a practical method for better resource allocation
Background The limited health care resources cannot meet all the demands of the society. Thus, decision makers have to choose feasible interventions and reject the others. We aimed to collect and summarize the results of all cost utility analysis studies
Reza Hashempour +4 more
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Economic evaluation of healthcare programs seeks to compare treatments and preventive measures in terms of their efficiency, that is, their ability to generate health and well-being relative to the costs incurred. This chapter provides an introduction to one particular but widely used evaluation technique: cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA).
Luyten, Jeroen, Henderson, Cate
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Global bibliometric analysis of cost effectiveness analysis in healthcare research from 2013 to 2023
Background Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) has become a crucial technique in appraising the efficiency of healthcare interventions and resource allocation decisions.
Kemdi Lugard Okoroiwu +4 more
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This paper compares the implementation of the two economic evaluation methods Cost-Effectiveness/Utility (CEA/CUA) and Cost-Benefit Analysis (CBA) as tools for allocation of national public funds in the health and transport sector in Sweden, respectively.
Mikael Svensson, Lars Hultkrantz
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ABSTRACT Background Sickle cell disease (SCD) is a chronic, inherited hemoglobinopathy that requires frequent hospitalization for disease‐related complications. Canadian data on inpatient care is limited. This study compared caregiver‐reported hospital experiences of children with SCD to those with cystic fibrosis (CF), a chronic, autosomal recessive ...
Hailey M. Zwicker +11 more
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Background Integrating services for depression into primary care is key to reducing the treatment gap in low- and middle-income countries. We examined the value of providing the Healthy Activity Programme (HAP), a behavioral activation psychological ...
L. R. Aldridge +4 more
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Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of TAVR [PDF]
Transcather aortic valve replacement (TAVR) has rapidly gained worldwide acceptance for treating very high-risk patients with symptomatic severe aortic stenosis. Two valve systems are currently in common use worldwide and under trial in the United States.
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