Potential savings in the cost of caring for Alzheimer's disease. Treatment with rivastigmine.

abstract：:The progressive disability of Parkinson's disease results in substantial burdens for patients, their families and society in terms of increased health resource use, poorer quality of life, caregiver burden, disrupted family relationships, decreases in social and leisure activities, deteriorating emotional well-being, ...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Rubenstein LM,DeLeo A,Chrischilles EA

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To explore whether the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) takes account of concerns other than just incremental cost effectiveness in commissioning healthcare services. METHOD:A stated preference binary choice experiment was used to explore the preferences of members of NICE's Appra...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Tappenden P,Brazier J,Ratcliffe J,Chilcott J

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:Cyclosporin microemulsion (Neoral) is a self-emulsifying preconcentrate of cyclosporin which is more rapidly and consistently absorbed than the original oil-based formulation of cyclosporin (standard formulation; Sandimmun, Sandimmune). This superior pharmacokinetic profile suggests that cyclosporin microemu...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Coukell AJ,Plosker GL

更新日期：1998-12-01 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：:Cefotaxime is a parenterally administered third generation cephalosporin with a broad spectrum of antimicrobial activity. After more than a decade of use, cefotaxime continues to play an important role in the treatment of patients with serious infections, particularly those caused by Gram-negative bacteria. Clinical t...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Plosker GL,Foster RH,Benfield P

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The regulation of pricing and trade for in-patent medicines within the European pharmaceutical sector presents a major challenge. In conditions of large sunk costs and consumers with differential willingness to pay--between different Member States--an efficient way of pricing in-patent medicines is through price discr...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Glynn D

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To estimate the direct and indirect costs of morbidity and mortality attributable to alcohol consumption in Germany from a societal perspective in 2002. METHODS:Using the concept of attributable risks and the prevalence-based approach, age- and gender-specific alcohol-attributable fractions for morbidity and morta...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Konnopka A,König HH

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Given the association between CD4 cell counts and HIV-related morbidity/mortality, new antiretroviral therapies could potentially lower the direct costs of HIV care by raising CD4 cell counts. OBJECTIVES:To predict the effects of the ritonavir-boosted, HIV protease inhibitor (PI) darunavir on the direct cos...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Hill AM,Gebo K,Hemmett L,Löthgren M,Allegri G,Smets E

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our objective was to assess the quality of reporting of original economic research articles in PharmacoEconomics from inception to the end of 1995, in order to identify areas of strength and weakness, and analyse trends over time. Each regular issue of the journal was examined for original economic evaluations. Accept...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Iskedjian M,Trakas K,Bradley CA,Addis A,Lanctôt K,Kruk D,Ilersich AL,Einarson TR

更新日期：1997-12-01 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：:The role of economic evaluation in the efficient allocation of healthcare resources has been widely debated. Whilst economic evidence is undoubtedly useful to purchasers, it does not address the issue of affordability which is an increasing concern. Healthcare purchasers are concerned not just with maximising efficien...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Trueman P,Drummond M,Hutton J

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The elderly are a heterogeneous population group who range from well and completely independent individuals to a smaller proportion who are frail, require help and are high users of the healthcare system. Since health is a state of well-being which includes the domains of social, spiritual, psychological and physical ...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Turpie I,Strang D,Darzins P,Guyatt G

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Disease management is a systematic approach to a health condition or a healthcare intervention that organises preventative, interventional and care approaches throughout the continuum of care and which measures outcomes in terms of populations, not individuals. Disease management's advantage over the current component...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Chang K,Nash D

更新日期：1998-07-01 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：BACKGROUND:To reach the French market, a new drug requires a marketing authorization (MA) and price and reimbursement agreements. These hurdles could delay access to new and promising drugs. Since 1992, French law authorizes the use of unlicensed drugs on an exceptional and temporary basis through a compassionate-use p...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Degrassat-Théas A,Paubel P,Parent de Curzon O,Le Pen C,Sinègre M

更新日期：2013-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:As part of the Single Technology Appraisal (STA) process, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) invited the manufacturer (AstraZeneca) of durvalumab (IMFINZITM) to submit evidence for the clinical and cost effectiveness of durvalumab for the treatment of patients with locally advanced, unresecta...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Witlox WJA,van Asselt ADI,Wolff R,Armstrong N,Worthy G,Chalker A,Buksnys T,Stirk L,Kleijnen J,Joore MA,Grimm SE

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Carcinoid syndrome, a rare condition in patients with neuroendocrine tumours, characterised by flushing and diarrhoea, severely affects patients' quality of life. The current carcinoid syndrome standard of care includes somatostatin analogues, but some patients experience uncontrolled symptoms despite somato...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Fust K,Maschio M,Kohli M,Singh S,Pritchard DM,Marteau F,Myrenfors P,Feuilly M

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmacoeconomics of the low molecular weight heparin (LMWH) enoxaparin in the prophylaxis and treatment of venous thromboembolism have mostly been investigated in cost-effectiveness studies that estimated direct costs associated with treatment, using decision analyses and clinical outcome data from randomised con...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Bergqvist D

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health economic evaluation is a framework for the comparative analysis of the incremental health gains and costs associated with competing decision alternatives. The process of developing health economic models is usually complex, financially expensive and time-consuming. For these reasons, model development is someti...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Bermejo I,Tappenden P,Youn JH

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variable compliance with prescribed drug regimens is a leading source of variability in drug response. Specifics differ by drug and disease. The role of variable compliance was clearly defined in 2 trials of lipid-lowering agents, cholestyramine and gemfibrozil, in which exceptionally careful measurements of complianc...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Urquhart J

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：INTRODUCTION:Recent clinical trial results have demonstrated that, in patients with type 2 diabetes, second-line treatment of rosiglitazone in combination with metformin can lead to significant improvements in the control of fasting plasma glucose/ glycosylated haemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) after the failure of metformin mon...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Beale S,Bagust A,Shearer AT,Martin A,Hulme L

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Barrett's oesophagus is a premalignant complication that occurs in approximately 10% of patients with gastro-oesophageal reflux disease (GORD). In patients with Barrett's oesophagus, the risk of adenocarcinoma of the oesophagus approaches 0.5% per patient-years. Therefore, practice guidelines have been developed that ...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Arguedas MR,Eloubeidi MA

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Epidural analgesia and intravenous analgesia with opioids are two techniques for providing pain relief for women in labour. Labour pain is comparable to surgical pain in its severity, and epidural analgesia provides better relief from this pain than intravenous analgesia; a meta-analysis quantified this improvement to...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Huang C,Macario A

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:(i) To project vaccine parameters, economic consequences and market size associated with HIV-1 vaccination of infants in sub-Saharan Africa through the Expanded Program on Immunisation (EPI); and (ii) to assess threshold values for price and effectiveness. STUDY DESIGN AND METHODS:Cost-effectiveness analysi...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Bos JM,Postma MJ

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the Netherlands, decisions about the reimbursement of new pharmaceuticals are based on cost effectiveness, as well as therapeutic value and budget impact. Since 1 January 2005, drug manufacturers are formally required to substantiate the cost effectiveness of drugs that have therapeutic added value in com...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Hoomans T,Severens JL,van der Roer N,Delwel GO

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Economic factors are a limiting factor toward the implementation of many health programmes and interventions. Economic evaluation has a great potential to contribute toward cost-effective healthcare delivery in South Africa. Little is known about the characteristics and quality of health economic (including ...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Gavaza P,Rascati KL,Oladapo AO,Khoza S

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pharmaceutical industry's core business is the innovation, development and marketing of new drugs. Pharmacogenetic (PG) testing and technology has the potential to increase a drug's value in many ways. A critical issue for the industry is whether products in development should be teamed with genetic tests that cou...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Vernon JA,Johnson SJ,Hughen WK,Trujillo A

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pneumocystis carinii pneumonia (PCP) is the most common severe opportunistic infection, and one of the most costly, among people with AIDS. Over 50% of patients experience toxic effects of the major anti-PCP medications- cotrimoxazole (trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole) and pentamidine. Recently, the US Food and Drug Admi...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Zarkin GA,Bala MV,Wood LL,Bennett CL,Simpson K,Dohn MN

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A survey of the prescribing of psychotropic drugs was carried out at the Psychiatric Hospital of Bahrain. This retrospective study on 60 inpatients of the Long Stay Ward revealed a man:woman ratio of 2.7. 91% of the men and 88% of the women were over 40 years old. 44 of the 60 patients had a diagnosis of schizophre...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： El Hefny F,Al Haddad MK,Mathur V

更新日期：1992-03-01 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