A systematic review to assess the policy-making relevance of dementia cost-of-illness studies in the US and Canada.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lung cancer is among the top causes of cancer-related deaths. Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR)-tyrosine kinase inhibitors can increase progression-free survival compared with standard chemotherapy in patients with EGFR mutation-positive advanced non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). OBJECTIVE:The aim o...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Schremser K,Rogowski WH,Adler-Reichel S,Tufman AL,Huber RM,Stollenwerk B

更新日期：2015-11-01 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

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：: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：BACKGROUND:Heart failure (HF) is a well-recognized public health concern and imposes high economic and societal costs. Decision analytic models exist for evaluating the economic ramifications associated with HF. Despite this, studies that appraise these modelling approaches for augmenting best-practice decisions remain...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Di Tanna GL,Bychenkova A,O'Neill F,Wirtz HS,Miller P,Ó Hartaigh B,Globe G

更新日期：2019-03-01 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：: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：:Asian healthcare systems are very diverse, representing cultures, political systems and economies from more than 30 countries with varying histories. Despite the diversity in the region, there has been enormous growth in health economics and outcomes research since the beginning of the 21st century. Whilst Japan has s...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Kamae I

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The progressive increase in the prevalence of obesity and aging in the population is resulting in increased healthcare and disability spending. The burden of obesity is particularly relevant in old age, due to accumulating co-morbidities and changes in body composition. Sarcopenic obesity, a mix of over- and under-nut...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Corica F,Bianchi G,Corsonello A,Mazzella N,Lattanzio F,Marchesini G

更新日期：2015-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The process of "mapping" is increasingly being used to predict health utilities, for application within health economic evaluations, using data on other indicators or measures of health. Guidance for the reporting of mapping studies is currently lacking. OBJECTIVE:The overall objective of this research was ...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Petrou S,Rivero-Arias O,Dakin H,Longworth L,Oppe M,Froud R,Gray A

更新日期：2015-10-01 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：:Darunavir boosted by low-dose ritonavir (DRV/r), at a daily dose of 600/100 mg twice a day (bid), has been shown to be superior to alternative highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART) regimens for the management of treatment-experienced, HIV-infected adults in the phase IIb POWER trials and the phase III TITAN tri...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Mauskopf J,Annemans L,Hill AM,Smets E

更新日期：2010-01-01 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：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：:Proper economic evaluation involves comparative analysis of alternative courses of action in terms of both costs and outcome. This is difficult for general anaesthesia as there are few alternatives and measurement of outcome is difficult to define. All that is generally available is a cost description of different a...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Rhodes SP,Ridley S

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To evaluate the cost effectiveness of dabrafenib versus dacarbazine and vemurafenib as first-line treatments in patients with BRAF V600 mutation-positive unresectable or metastatic melanoma from a Canadian healthcare system perspective. METHODS:A partitioned-survival analysis model with three mutually exclus...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Delea TE,Amdahl J,Wang A,Amonkar MM,Thabane M

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It has become increasingly popular to carry out cost-effectiveness analyses in economic evaluations of healthcare programmes. Cost-effectiveness analysis is based on the maximisation of the health effects for a given amount of resources. However, many published studies fail to report the results of cost-effectiveness ...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Karlsson G,Johannesson M

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Schizophrenia is a devastating and costly illness that affects 1% of the population in the US. Effective pharmacological therapies are available but suboptimal patient adherence to either acute or long-term therapeutic regimens reduces their effectiveness. The availability of a long-acting injection (LAI) fo...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Edwards NC,Rupnow MF,Pashos CL,Botteman MF,Diamond RJ

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：:Total hip arthroplasty (THA) is a major orthopaedic procedure with a high risk of postoperative thromboembolism. Increasing demand for this type of surgery, together with its high cost, has led to examination of means by which the cost of THA may be minimised. Current clinical opinion favours the use of suitable pharm...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Dunn CJ,Goa KL

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:While drotrecogin alfa (activated) was shown to decrease absolute 28-day mortality by 6.1% in patients with severe sepsis in the Recombinant Human Protein C Worldwide Evaluation in Severe Sepsis (PROWESS) study, no mortality benefit was observed in the subset of patients with only one organ system failure. C...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Betancourt M,McKinnon PS,Massanari RM,Kanji S,Bach D,Devlin JW

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Given the policy relevance and growing volume of research measuring individuals' willingness to pay (WTP) for health-related goods and services, meta-analysis provides a potentially rich set of tools for answering key questions about this research area. In particular, when taken as a whole, what does the existing empi...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Van Houtven G

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Constipation is one of the most common digestive complaints. It is a symptom, not a disease. The subjectivity that this involves means that assessments of clinical epidemiology, socioeconomic costs and pharmacotherapy are difficult, since there is no definition of 'normal' bowel habit. Although constipation can affect...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Passmore AP

更新日期：1995-01-01 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：OBJECTIVE:Our objective was to identify, among the information routinely collected on patients in intensive care units (ICUs), data that determine the total cost for a given patient. DESIGN:We developed a model that could help physicians in medical ICUs to estimate the cost of care for their patients when no cost data...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Chaix C,Durand-Zaleski I,Alberti C,Brun-Buisson C

更新日期：1999-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an inevitable tension between robust reimbursement processes and providing speedy access to new and novel technologies, given uncertainties about key pieces of evidence and subsequent concerns regarding their overall efficiency. The public perception of these treatments as 'breakthrough', combined with substa...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： McCabe CJ,Stafinski T,Edlin R,Menon D,Banff AED Summit.

更新日期：2010-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this prospective sequential multinational (5 countries) study was to concurrently evaluate the effects of subcutaneous sumatriptan on clinical parameters, health-related quality-of-life (HRQOL) measures, workplace productivity and patient satisfaction. This report presents the HRQOL results. 582 patients (a...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Dahlöf C,Bouchard J,Cortelli P,Heywood J,Jansen JP,Pham S,Hirsch J,Adams J,Miller DW

更新日期：1997-01-01 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：:This study evaluated the cost of sequential treatment with once-daily ofloxacin or twice-daily ciprofloxacin in 474 hospitalised patients in different countries. The patients were treated intravenously for at least 3 days, then orally for 7 to 10 days or for 3 days beyond the disappearance of infection-related symptom...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Salewski E,Bassaris HP,Calangu S,Kitzes R,Kosmidis J,Raz R,Kompan L

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The high consumption of hypolipidaemic agents warrants the study of the costs caused by these medicines being inadequately prescribed. OBJECTIVE:To quantify the economic cost generated in 1 year in primary care by inadequate (or unnecessary) prescriptions for hypolipidaemic drugs. METHODS:A cross-sectional...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Ballesteros LC,Fernández San Martín MI,Sanz Cuesta T,Escortell Mayor E,López Bilbao C

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00