Statistical versus quantitative significance in the socioeconomic evaluation of medicines.

abstract：BACKGROUND AND AIM:Buprenorphine offers an alternative to methadone in the treatment of heroin dependence, and has the advantage of allowing alternate-day dosing. This study is the first to examine the cost effectiveness of buprenorphine as maintenance treatment for heroin dependence in a primary care setting using eco...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Harris AH,Gospodarevskaya E,Ritter AJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Although decision making about what drugs to include in an institutional formulary appears to lend itself readily to quantitative techniques such as decision analysis and cost-benefit analysis, a review of the literature reveals that very little has been published in this area. Several of the published decision analy...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Schechter CB

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is growing interest in using observational data to assess the safety, effectiveness, and cost effectiveness of medical technologies, but operational, technical, and methodological challenges limit its more widespread use. Common data models and federated data networks offer a potential solution to many of these ...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Kent S,Burn E,Dawoud D,Jonsson P,Østby JT,Hughes N,Rijnbeek P,Bouvy JC

更新日期：2020-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent licensing of interferon-beta for use in patients with multiple sclerosis has caused concern, in view of the equivocal evidence of efficacy, pressure of public expectation towards its use and the high expected cost if widespread use were to be sanctioned. Whether such alarm is justified remains a moot point....

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Tolley KH,Whynes DK

更新日期：1997-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the cost utility of adding interferon-alpha 2b to conventional treatment in patients with multiple myeloma. It also provides a methodology for transforming complex quality-of-life profiles into a single index value on the conventional 0 to 1 quality-adjusted life-year scale (QALY). From 1990 to 19...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Nord E,Wisløff F,Hjorth M,Westin J

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lack of a uniform costing methodology is often considered a weakness of economic evaluations that hinders the interpretation and comparison of studies. Standardisation is therefore an important topic within the methodology of economic evaluations and in national guidelines that formulate the formal requirements fo...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Oostenbrink JB,Koopmanschap MA,Rutten FF

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of its Single Technology Appraisal (STA) process, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) invited the manufacturer of evolocumab (Amgen) to submit evidence on the clinical and cost effectiveness of evolocumab. The appraisal assessed evolocumab as monotherapy or in combination with a statin...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Carroll C,Tappenden P,Rafia R,Hamilton J,Chambers D,Clowes M,Durrington P,Qureshi N,Wierzbicki AS

更新日期：2016-11-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to a single error in the annual cost of sarilumab the following needs to be corrected in the article. ...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Wehler E,Boytsov N,Nicolay C,Herrera-Restrepo O,Kowal S

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Simulation models utilizing real-world data have potential to optimize treatment sequencing strategies for specific patient subpopulations, including when conducting clinical trials is not feasible. We aimed to develop a simulation model to estimate progression-free survival (PFS) and overall survival for fi...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Degeling K,Wong HL,Koffijberg H,Jalali A,Shapiro J,Kosmider S,Wong R,Lee B,Burge M,Tie J,Yip D,Nott L,Khattak A,Lim S,Caird S,Gibbs P,IJzerman M

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Combination therapies with cetuximab (Erbitux®; Merck Serono UK Ltd) and panitumumab (Vectibix®; Amgen UK Ltd) are shown to be less effective in adults with metastatic colorectal cancer who have mutations in exons 2, 3 and 4 of KRAS and NRAS oncogenes from the rat sarcoma (RAS) family. OBJECTIVE:The objecti...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Tikhonova IA,Huxley N,Snowsill T,Crathorne L,Varley-Campbell J,Napier M,Hoyle M

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies have shown that ACE inhibitors reduce morbidity and mortality after myocardial infarction (MI). While these trials have obvious clinical implications, the widespread introduction of a new treatment for a condition as common as MI also has clear cost implications. The results of the post-MI studies with ...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Hummel S,Piercy J,Wright R,Davie A,Bagust A,McMurray J

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence's (NICE) Single Technology Appraisal (STA) process, ruxolitinib was assessed to determine the clinical and cost effectiveness of its use in the treatment of disease-related splenomegaly or symptoms in adults with myelofibrosis. Ruxolitinib had previously...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Wade R,Hodgson R,Biswas M,Harden M,Woolacott N

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a recent leading article in PharmacoEconomics, Nuijten described some methods for incorporating uncertainty into health economic models and for utilising the information on uncertainty regarding the cost effectiveness of a therapy in resource allocation decision-making. His proposals are found to suffer from seriou...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： O'Hagan A,McCabe C,Akehurst R,Brennan A,Briggs A,Claxton K,Fenwick E,Fryback D,Sculpher M,Spiegelhalter D,Willan A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Mixture modelling is increasingly being considered where a potential cure leads to a long life. Traditional methods use relative survival models for frail populations or cure models that have improper survival functions with theoretical infinite lifespans. Additionally, much of the work uses population dat...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Grant TS,Burns D,Kiff C,Lee D

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic, generally progressive autoimmune disease that causes functional disability, significant pain and joint destruction, and leads to premature mortality. It is estimated to affect between 0.5 and 1.0% of the adult population worldwide, increases in prevalence with age and affects mo...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Kvien TK

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) are increasingly advocated as a way to quantify preferences for health. However, increasing support does not necessarily result in increasing quality. Although specific reviews have been conducted in certain contexts, there exists no recent description of the general state ...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Soekhai V,de Bekker-Grob EW,Ellis AR,Vass CM

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The apparent decrease in the rate of approval of new molecular entities has provoked extensive discussion and fears that the productivity of biopharmaceutical research and development has severely declined in recent years. OBJECTIVE:To investigate the extent to which traditional measures of innovative outpu...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Berndt ER,Cockburn IM,Grépin KA

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of pharmacoeconomic tools has grown dramatically in the past decade as provision of healthcare throughout the industrialised world has required increased cost consciousness. However, pharmacoeconomic analysis has not yet been fully exploited as a conceptual underpinning for public or private health policy deci...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Greenberg PE,Arcelus A,Birnbaum HG,Cremieux PY,LeLorier J,Ouellette P,Slavin MB

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In many healthcare systems, affordability concerns can lead to restrictions on the use of expensive efficacious therapies. However, there does not appear to be any consensus as to the terminology used to describe affordability, or the thresholds used to determine whether new drugs are affordable. OBJECTIVES...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Antoñanzas F,Terkola R,Overton PM,Shalet N,Postma M

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper analyses the 32 technology appraisals completed by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the UK from its establishment to the end of January 2002. It looks at why technologies have been rejected, what has happened to products reviewed at launch, evidence of rationing on cost-effectiveness...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Towse A,Pritchard C

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:International phase III studies (CHIB 201 and 352) showed that basiliximab, a high affinity chimeric monoclonal antibody interleukin-2 receptor antagonist, is highly effective in preventing acute rejection when used as immunoprophylaxis in patients receiving cyclosporin (Neoral). We conducted a cost evaluati...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Hasegawa T,Imai H,Miki S

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the potential savings in overall cardiovascular disease (CVD) treatment costs for the US population with coronary artery disease (CAD) resulting from the use of amlodipine. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS:Using patient-level data from a retrospective analysis of the Prospective Evaluation of the Vascula...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Casciano R,Doyle JJ,Chen J,Arikian S,Casciano J,Kugel H,Arocho R

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) is a key outcome in cost-utility analyses, which are commonly used to inform healthcare decisions. Different instruments exist to evaluate HRQoL, however while some jurisdictions have a preferred system, no gold standard exists. Standard meta-analysis struggles with the...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Schmitz S,Makovski TT,Adams R,van den Akker M,Stranges S,Zeegers MP

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the economic value of pharmacological treatment of type 2 diabetes mellitus in overweight and obese patients using orlistat in addition to standard diabetes therapy (i.e., a sulphonlyurea, metformin or insulin) and weight management strategies as compared with standard diabetes therapy and weight ...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Maetzel A,Ruof J,Covington M,Wolf A

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Before the new round of healthcare reform in China, primary healthcare providers could obtain a fixed 15 % or greater mark-up of profits by prescribing and selling medicines. There were concerns that this perverse incentive was a key cause of irrational medicine use. China's new Essential Medicines Program (...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Chen M,Wang L,Chen W,Zhang L,Jiang H,Mao W

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The study aimed to conduct a systematic literature search to identify health state utilities for weight change in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and to review those values for appropriateness for inclusion in a submission to the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). METHODS:The searc...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Doyle S,Lloyd A,Moore L,Ray J,Gray A

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Low-dose aspirin (ASA) is effective for secondary prevention of ischemic stroke but can increase the risks of hemorrhagic stroke, upper gastrointestinal bleeding (UGIB), and dyspepsia. Prophylactic administration of proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) reduces the risks of these digestive symptoms. We investigated ...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Takabayashi N,Murata K,Tanaka S,Kawakami K

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have defined the effect and acceptability of a locally developed general practice programme for the modification of prescribing. This voluntary programme consisted of prescription analysis and feedback, followed by visits from a pharmacist, a therapeutic bulletin on benzodiazepine prescribing, and use of a locally ...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Ferguson RI,Salmond CE,Maling TJ

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Stroke remains the leading cause of neurological disability and the third leading cause of death worldwide, consuming a large share of total healthcare expenditures. In this review, we discuss the cost effectiveness of stroke prevention for various risk factor-modification programmes and pharmacological interventions ...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Alexandrov AV,Smurawska LT,Bartle W,Oh P

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bipolar disorder has a significant impact upon a patient's quality of life, imposing a considerable economic burden on the individual, family members and society as a whole. Several medications are indicated for the acute treatment of mania and depression associated with bipolar disorder as well as for maint...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Ekman M,Lindgren P,Miltenburger C,Meier G,Locklear JC,Chatterton ML

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00