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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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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 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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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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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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ABSTRACT Background Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (alloHSCT) is an essential therapy for several malignant and nonmalignant diseases, but relapse and graft loss remain the principal threats to its success. Routine monitoring of chimerism and minimal residual disease (MRD) enables early detection of imminent recurrence and guides ...
Carmen Junk +10 more
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A parsimonious model to validate cost-effectiveness analyses on preventive health care
Background The effect of preventive health care on health expenditures is ambiguous. On the one hand, prevention reduces the costs of future morbidity. On the other hand, prevention leads to costs of life extension.
Afschin Gandjour
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ABSTRACT Febrile neutropenia (FN) is a frequent and serious complication in children receiving cancer therapy. Standardizing FN management across Asia is challenging due to variable healthcare infrastructure, diagnostic capacity, and infection patterns; however, it could improve resource use and patient outcomes.
Joliza Patricia Cañeba +29 more
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