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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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Eflornithine is a cost-effective alternative to melarsoprol for the treatment of second-stage human West African trypanosomiasis in Caxito, Angola. [PDF]

, 2008
OBJECTIVE: To compare the cost-effectiveness of eflornithine and melarsoprol in the treatment of human African trypanosomiasis. METHOD: We used data from a Médecins Sans Frontières treatment project in Caxito, Angola to do a formal cost-effectiveness ...
Adam, Blum, Burri, Burri, Chappuis, Commission for Macroeconomics and Health, Edejer, Evans, Goldie, Legros, Louis, Lutumba, Matovu, Murray, Murray, Pepin, Pepin, Pepin, Politi, Priotto, Robays, Schmid, Schmid, Stanghellini   +23 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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(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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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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The effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of respite for caregivers of frail older people [PDF]

, 2007
The proportion of frail elderly people in the industrialized world is increasing. Respite care is a potentially important way of maintaining the quality of life for these people and their caregivers.
Arksey, Artaso Irigoyen, Baumgarten, Buchner, Burch, Census 2001., Chapko, Clark, Conlin, Covinsky, Derogatis, Donaldson, Feinberg, Fisher, Gaugler, Gaugler, Grant, Grundy, Hedrick, Hirst, Holm, Johnson, Kosloski, Kosloski, Lawton, Lee, Lund, Maher, Montgomery, Montgomery, Montgomery, Montgomery, Montgomery, Niebuhr, Pinquart, Quayhagen, Robertson, Robertson, Rockwood, Rockwood, Rockwood, Sörensen, Undertaking Systematic Reviews of Research on Effectiveness., Walston, Wan, Wells, Wills, Wishart, Yin, Zank, Zarit   +50 more
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Delivering diabetes education through nurseled telecoaching : cost-effectiveness analysis [PDF]

, 2016
Background : People with diabetes have a high risk of developing micro-and macrovascular complications associated with diminished life expectancy and elevated treatment costs. Patient education programs can improve diabetes control in the short term, but
Aertgeerts, Bert, Annemans, Lieven, Goderis, Geert, Nobels, Frank, Odnoletkova, Irina, Ramaekers, Dirk   +5 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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Current Knowledge and Attitudes Concerning Cost-Effectiveness in Glaucoma Pharmacotherapy: A Glaucoma Specialists Focus Group Study. [PDF]

, 2020
Background:Rising healthcare costs motivate continued cost-reduction efforts. To help lower costs associated with open-angle glaucoma (OAG), a prevalent, progressive disease with substantial direct and indirect costs, clinicians need to understand the ...
Cioffi, George A, Feldman, Robert M, Feldman, Robert M, Liebmann, Jeffrey M, Weinreb, Robert N   +4 more
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Assessing Hygiene Cost-Effectiveness [PDF]

, 2011
This paper introduces "hygiene effectiveness levels" as a tool for standardized analysis of costs and outcomes of hygiene promotion interventions.
Alana Potter, Amelie Dube, Maarten van de Reep, Peter Burr   +3 more
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