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The cost-effectiveness of smoking cessation support delivered by mobile phone text messaging: Txt2stop. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
BACKGROUND: The txt2stop trial has shown that mobile-phone-based smoking cessation support doubles biochemically validated quitting at 6 months. This study examines the cost-effectiveness of smoking cessation support delivered by mobile phone text ...
Cairns, John   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

Decision Analysis and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis [PDF]

open access: yesSeminars in Spine Surgery, 2009
Healthcare decision-making can be complex, often requiring decision makers to weigh serious trade-offs, consider patients' values, and incorporate evidence in the face of uncertainty. Medical decisions are made implicitly by clinicians and other decision-makers on a daily basis. Decisions based largely on personal experience are subject to many biases.
Jon D. Lurie   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Impact of total knee replacement practice: cost effectiveness analysis of data from the Osteoarthritis Initiative

open access: yesBritish medical journal, 2017
Objectives To evaluate the impact of total knee replacement on quality of life in people with knee osteoarthritis and to estimate associated differences in lifetime costs and quality adjusted life years (QALYs) according to use by level of symptoms ...
B. Ferket   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Screening strategies for atrial fibrillation: a systematic review and cost-effectiveness analysis.

open access: yesHealth Technology Assessment, 2017
BACKGROUND Atrial fibrillation (AF) is a common cardiac arrhythmia that increases the risk of thromboembolic events. Anticoagulation therapy to prevent AF-related stroke has been shown to be cost-effective.
N. Welton   +15 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Cost-effectiveness of [18F] fluoroethyl-L-tyrosine for temozolomide therapy assessment in patients with glioblastoma [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Background and Purpose: Glioblastomas are the most aggressive of all gliomas. The prognosis of these gliomas, which are classified as grade IV tumors by the World Health Organization (WHO), is poor.
Baguet, Tristan   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Cost–Effectiveness Analysis in Pharmacogenomics [PDF]

open access: yesPharmacogenomics, 2010
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, FH Shabaruddin
openaire   +3 more sources

Cost-effectiveness analysis of intravenous levetiracetam versus intravenous phenytoin for early onset seizure prophylaxis after neurosurgery and traumatic brain injury

open access: yesClinicoEconomics and Outcomes Research, 2010
Rashid Kazerooni1, Mark Bounthavong1,21Pharmacoeconomics/Formulary Management, Veterans Affairs San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, USA; 2UCSD Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, San Diego, CA, USAObjective: There has been ...
Rashid Kazerooni, Mark Bounthavong
doaj  

Offering the Choice of Self-Administered Oral HIV Testing (CHIVST) among Long-distance Truck Drivers in Kenya: A Trial-based Cost-effectiveness Analysis [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
Background: Long distance truck drivers (LDTD) are a high-HIV-risk population facing unique healthcare barriers due to continuous travel and irregular schedules, and may require targeted, resource-intensive strategies for HIV-test uptake.
Kimmel, April D., Mujwara, Deo
core   +1 more source

Extended Cost-Effectiveness Analysis for Health Policy Assessment: A Tutorial

open access: yesPharmacoEconomics (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
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Optimising the management of vaginal discharge syndrome in Bulgaria: cost effectiveness of four clinical algorithms with risk assessment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
OBJECTIVES: To evaluate the performance and cost effectiveness of the WHO recommendations of incorporating risk-assessment scores and population prevalence of Neisseria gonorrhoeae (NG) and Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) into vaginal discharge syndrome (VDS)
Anguenot, J-L   +10 more
core   +4 more sources

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