Economic burden of multiple sclerosis: a systematic review of the literature.

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Ireland, all new drugs are considered for a formal pharmacoeconomic evaluation (PE) prior to a reimbursement decision. All evaluations are conducted by the National Centre for Pharmacoeconomics (NCPE). The objectives of this study were to describe the evaluation process and to examine the movement of drug...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： McCullagh L,Barry M

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to compare the cost effectiveness of amoxicillin/clavulanic acid with other antibacterial regimens for prophylaxis of infection after elective abdominal or gynaecological surgery. Data from 21 previously published comparative clinical trials were used to calculate statistical confidence...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Davey PG,Parker SE,Crombie IK,Jaderberg M

更新日期：1995-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pharmacogenetics offers the potential to improve health outcomes by identifying individuals who are at greater risk of harm from certain medicines. Routine adoption of pharmacogenetic tests requires evidence of their cost effectiveness. OBJECTIVE:The present review aims to systematically review published ec...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Plumpton CO,Roberts D,Pirmohamed M,Hughes DA

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of health-related QOL (HR-QOL) measures specifically designed for people with diabetes mellitus have appeared in the literature. This article provides a selective review of 12 measures that address this important construct. For each included study, a description of the measure and its development phase is pro...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Watkins K,Connell CM

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the method of willingness to pay (WTP), this study assesses the value of a new antidepressant, moclobemide, relative to that of tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs), which have equivalent efficacy but less favourable adverse effect profiles. From a published meta-analysis of controlled clinical trials, we identified...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： O'Brien BJ,Novosel S,Torrance G,Streiner D

更新日期：1995-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to demonstrate the cost effectiveness of long term maintenance treatment with citalopram versus standard therapy (defined as short term antidepressant treatment) in patients with major depression in Germany. We chose doxepin, amitriptyline and trimipramine as standard therapy because th...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Nuijten MJ,Hardens M,Souêtre E

更新日期：1995-08-01 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：:For practical reasons, in order to carry out economic evaluations of collective decisions, total costs will generally be compared with total benefits; hence, individuals' willingness to pay (WTP) or quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) have to be estimated at an aggregate level. So far, aggregation has usually been don...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Liljas B,Lindgren B

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Germany is in a period of transition with regard to healthcare reform. The number and intensity of cost control interventions increased during the last decade in an attempt to contain healthcare expenditure. The German legislature has implemented long term macroeconomic measures such as contribution rate stability and...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Ulrich V,Wille E

更新日期：1996-01-01 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：OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to assess the cost effectiveness of using epoetin-alpha (erythropoietin) to augment preoperative autologous donation (PAD) of blood prior to elective cardiac surgery. DESIGN AND SETTING:We designed a decision-analytic model incorporating the risk of receiving allogeneic blood,...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Coyle D,Lee KM,Fergusson DA,Laupacis A

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This tutorial presents practical guidance on transforming various types of information published in journals, or available online from government and other sources, into transition probabilities for use in state-transition models, including cost-effectiveness models. Much, but not all, of the guidance has been previou...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Gidwani R,Russell LB

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an attempt to obtain an appropriate estimate of the excess costs of production losses arising from morbidity in patients with diabetes, we compared the number of sick days and permanently disabled individuals in a diabetic population and the corresponding general population. These comparisons show that the rate of ...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Persson U

更新日期：1995-01-01 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:Health technology assessment has been increasingly used in China, having been legally mandated in 2019, to inform reimbursement decisions and price negotiations between the National Healthcare Security Administration and pharmaceutical companies around the price of new pharmaceuticals. The criteria currently...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Ochalek J,Wang H,Gu Y,Lomas J,Cutler H,Jin C

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Measuring health-related quality of life in patients with cancer has focused primarily on the development of reliable and valid instruments (questionnaires), and on the effect of chemotherapy in phase III clinical trials. From this research several important lessons have emerged, such as: (i) the need to measure multi...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Osoba D

更新日期：1995-04-01 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:Like other developed countries with aging populations, Sweden is expecting large increases in the prevalence of Alzheimer's disease and corresponding escalations in the cost of care for patients with this disease. Galantamine, a new acetylcholinesterase inhibitor and nicotinic modulator, has proved effective...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Garfield FB,Getsios D,Caro JJ,Wimo A,Winblad B

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) invited Pfizer, the manufacturer of inotuzumab ozogamicin (henceforth inotuzumab), to submit clinical- and cost-effectiveness evidence for inotuzumab as part of NICE's single technology appraisal process. The Centre for Reviews and Dissemination and the Cent...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Cox E,Wade R,Peron M,Dietz KC,Eastwood A,Palmer S,Griffin S

更新日期：2019-09-01 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：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：:The original article can be found online. ...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Paulden M

更新日期：2020-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To decompose drug spending in Sweden between the years 1990 and 2000. This paper updates a previous study, which looked at the period 1990-1995, by providing an additional 5 years of data (1995-2000) and extending the previous analysis in a number of ways. METHODS:The paper builds on the earlier work that sh...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Gerdtham UG,Lundin D

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:About half of the world's population live in Asia. Mandarin (the official language of China), Hindi and Japanese are among the ten languages spoken by the largest number of primary speakers. The numbers of Tamil and Malay speakers are expected to grow rapidly in the next few decades. Most health-related quality-of-lif...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Cheung YB,Thumboo J

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:During the 1990s, a number of new cytotoxic agents with clinically relevant activity in non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC), and with a more favourable therapeutic index than drugs already in use, became available. Given the high prices of these new drugs and the large number of patients affected, it is impor...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Neymark N,Lianes P,Smit EF,van Meerbeeck JP

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cost-utility analysis (CUA) is a technique that can potentially be used as a guide to allocating healthcare resources so as to obtain the maximum health benefits possible under a given budget constraint. However, it is not clear that current practice captures societal preferences regarding health benefits. In analyses...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Cohen BJ

更新日期：2003-01-01 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：:Since the inception of the National Health Service in 1948, successive British governments have taken various measures to restrain the growth of the medicines bill. A total of 10 different measures have been introduced with very limited success. The most effective measures have been those directed at increasing the le...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Griffin JP

更新日期：1996-09-01 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：OBJECTIVE:To determine whether the use of risperidone in a US managed-care environment is associated with a reduction in the use of mental healthcare services. METHODS:Mental health service use and costs for patients with psychoses treated with risperidone versus those treated with conventional antipsychotic agents we...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Gianfrancesco F,Durkin MB,Mahmoud R,Wang RH

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00