How to allocate scarce health resources without discriminating against people with disabilities [PDF]
, 2016 One widely used method for allocating health care resources involves the use of cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) to rank treatments in terms of quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) gained.
John, Tyler M. +2 more
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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. +6 more
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Measuring Quality-Adjusted Life-Years When Health Fluctuates [PDF]
Value in Health, 2020 Recurrent fluctuations in health states can occur as a result of long-term conditions with episodic symptoms or through side effects of cycles of treatment. Fluctuations and associated duration of symptoms can be predictable (eg, side effects of chemotherapy treatment) or unpredictable (eg, relapse in multiple sclerosis). Such recurrent fluctuations in
Sanghera, Sabina, Coast, Joanna
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Cost‐effectiveness analysis of delgocitinib in adult patients with atopic dermatitis in Japan
Journal of Cutaneous Immunology and Allergy, 2021 Objectives This study evaluated the cost‐effectiveness of delgocitinib relative to moisturization therapy in adult patients with moderate to severe atopic dermatitis. Methods The analysis was performed by using the simulation model with the patient‐level
Motoi Takenaka +7 more
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The relative value of different QALY types [PDF]
, 2020 The oft-applied assumption in the use of Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALYs) in economic evaluation, that all QALYs are valued equally, has been questioned from the outset.
Bulfone, Liliana +6 more
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Is increased hepatitis C virus case-finding combined with current or 8-week to 12-week direct-acting antiviral therapy cost-effective in UK prisons? A prevention benefit analysis [PDF]
, 2016 UNLABELLED: Prisoners have a high prevalence of hepatitis C virus (HCV), but case-finding may not have been cost-effective because treatment often exceeded average prison stay combined with a lack of continuity of care. We assessed the cost-effectiveness
Brew, Iain F. +10 more
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Willingness to Pay for a Quality-Adjusted Life-Year: The Individual Perspective [PDF]
Value in Health, 2010 The aim of this study was to elicit the individual willingness to pay (WTP) for a quality-adjusted life-year (QALY).In a Web-based questionnaire containing contingent valuation exercises, respondents valued health changes in five scenarios. In each scenario, the respondents first valued two health states on a visual analog scale (VAS) and expressed ...
Ana Bobinac +3 more
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Continence Across Continents To Upend Stigma and Dependency (CACTUS-D): study protocol for a cluster randomized controlled trial [PDF]
, 2015 Background: Urinary incontinence occurs in 40 % of women aged 65 years and over; however, only 15 % seek care and many delay healthcare seeking for years.
Fritel, Xavier +6 more
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Clinical Psychology in Europe, 2021 [Background] As estimated by the World Health Organization, depressive disorders will be the leading contributor to the Global Burden of Disease by 2030.
Laura Ulbrich, Christoph Kröger
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Putting the quality into quality-adjusted life years [PDF]
Journal of Public Health, 2003 Over recent decades, a great deal of effort has been devoted towards developing instruments that can be used to elicit health state values. All of these instruments are conceptually very different from one another and all suffer from serious inherent biases.
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