Obesity in the Context of Aging: Quality of Life Considerations.

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 AND OBJECTIVE:Glycoprotein (GP) IIb/IIIa receptor inhibitors enhance thrombolysis in patients with acute coronary syndromes. This analysis evaluates the economic impact of abciximab, a GP IIb/IIIa inhibitor, as an adjunct to urokinase in peripheral artery occlusions of less than 6 weeks duration. STUDY DESI...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Duda SH,Tepe G,Bala M,Luz O,Ziemer G,Ouriel K,Pusich B,Wiskirchen J,Claussen CD,Banz K

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) are commonly treated with renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system inhibitors (RAASi) in order to delay progression of renal disease. However, research has shown that RAASi in CKD patients increases hyperkalaemia (HK) prevalence, which leads to RAASi discontinuation or ...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Widén J,Ivarsson M,Schalin L,Vrouchou P,Schwenkglenks M,Heimbürger O,Ademi Z,Sutherland CS

更新日期：2020-07-01 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：:Which costs and benefits to consider in economic evaluations of healthcare interventions remains an area of much controversy. Unrelated medical costs in life-years gained is an important cost category that is normally ignored in economic evaluations, irrespective of the perspective chosen for the analysis. National gu...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Rappange DR,van Baal PH,van Exel NJ,Feenstra TL,Rutten FF,Brouwer WB

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Appropriate discounting rules in economic evaluations have received considerable attention in the literature and in national guidelines for economic evaluations. Rightfully so, as discounting can be quite influential on the outcomes of economic evaluations. The most prominent controversies regarding discounting involv...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Attema AE,Brouwer WBF,Claxton K

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) is one of the main tools of economic evaluation. Every CEA is based on a number of assumptions, some of which may not be accurate, introducing uncertainty. Sensitivity analysis (SA) formalizes ways to measure and evaluate this uncertainty. Specific sources of uncertainty in CEA have b...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Jain R,Grabner M,Onukwugha E

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies have not previously reported the indirect cost burden of multiple sclerosis (MS) from an employer perspective. To compare annual indirect costs between privately insured US employees with MS and matched employee controls. A retrospective analysis of a privately insured claims database containing disability dat...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Ivanova JI,Birnbaum HG,Samuels S,Davis M,Phillips AL,Meletiche D

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This century has seen a phenomenal growth in the development, understanding and use of pharmaceuticals. Additionally, this period has seen the balance of the treatment needs of patients shift dramatically from infectious to cardiovascular and cancer diseases, and from infancy and middle-age to old age. The value of mo...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Mason J,Freemantle N

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to estimate the direct and indirect costs of alcoholism in the Federal Republic of Germany. Direct costs comprised treatment costs, while indirect costs consisted mainly of costs incurred as a result of work time lost, as well as costs related to premature retirement and premature mortali...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Brecht JG,Poldrugo F,Schädlich PK

更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a global perspective to the economic consequences of diabetes, which is illustrated in the many publications now being produced on this subject. Because of the higher prevalence of type II diabetes, its impact is greater than that of type I diabetes in both developed and developing countries (but particularly...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Williams R

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Potential differences in toxicity, potency and acquisition price among the liposomal amphotericin B formulations makes it unclear which agent is less costly when total resource consumption and treatment-associated costs are considered. DESIGN:A retrospective cost-minimisation analysis in 51 patients was per...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Kuti JL,Kotapati S,Williams P,Capitano B,Nightingale CH,Nicolau DP

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing body of recent work has identified several problems with economic evaluations undertaken alongside controlled trials that can have potentially serious impacts on the ability of decision makers to draw valid conclusions. At the same time, the use of cost-effectiveness models has been drawn into question, due ...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： McCabe C,Dixon S

更新日期：2000-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, the most important issue in US pharmaceutical policy is probably cost containment. Research into pharmaceutical issues should therefore concentrate on this area. Analysis of changing trends in pharmaceutical expenditures, particularly during the early 1990s, would be a useful starting point. Research into t...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Meyer PR

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To examine the relative cost effectiveness of topical calcipotriol and short-contact dithranol in the treatment of mild to moderate plaque psoriasis. DESIGN AND SETTING:This was a modelling study from the perspective of the UK National Health Service as payer. METHODS:The interventions were compared using 2...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Ashcroft DM,Li Wan Po A,Williams HC,Griffiths CE

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To review and critically evaluate published cost-utility analyses (CUAs) pertaining to pharmaceuticals for the past 3 decades. We examined data from the Tufts Medical Center Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Registry (www.cearegistry.org), which contains detailed information on English-language CUAs and their ratios (in $US...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Neumann PJ,Fang CH,Cohen JT

更新日期：2009-01-01 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：BACKGROUND:Mapping Patient-Reported Outcomes Measurement Information System-Global Health (PROMIS-GH) to EuroQol 5-dimension, three-level version (EQ-5D-3L) provides a utility score for use in quality-of-life and cost-effectiveness analyses. In 2009, Revicki et al. mapped the PROMIS-GH items to EQ-5D-3L utilities using...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Thompson NR,Lapin BR,Katzan IL

更新日期：2017-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Uncertainty in the decision-making process for reimbursement of health technologies could be reduced if additional information were available. Although methods to evaluate the monetary value of the uncertainty have been previously described, an economic evaluation of alternative methods to acquire additional informati...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Shavit O,Leshno M,Goldberger A,Shmueli A,Hoffman A

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:To estimate the cost effectiveness (from the UK NHS and personal social services perspective) of the cholinesterase inhibitors donepezil, rivastigmine and galantamine compared with usual care in the treatment of mild to moderately severe Alzheimer's disease. Patients had a mean age of 74 years, a mean disease...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Green C,Picot J,Loveman E,Takeda A,Kirby J,Clegg A

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of the study was to determine the costs and effects associated with a community pharmacy-based smoking-cessation programme in Northern Ireland, using the perspective of the payer in the main analysis. DESIGN AND SETTING:Data from a pilot study conducted in 2 community pharmacies in Northern Ireland w...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Crealey GE,McElnay JC,Maguire TA,O'Neill C

更新日期：1998-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) invited the manufacturer of denosumab (Amgen Inc., UK) to submit evidence for the clinical and cost effectiveness of denosumab for the prevention of fragility fractures in post-menopausal women, as part of the Institute's single technology appraisal (STA...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Scotland G,Waugh N,Royle P,McNamee P,Henderson R,Hollick R

更新日期：2011-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fluconazole (FLU) is an alternative to amphotericin B (AMB) for the treatment of candidemia in non-neutropenic patients. This agent has similar clinical efficacy but significantly reduced adverse effects compared with AMB. Using the database from a Canadian randomised multicentre comparative trial of FLU versus AMB in...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Dranitsaris G,Phillips P,Rotstein C,Puodziunas A,Shafran S,Garber G,Smaill F,Salit I,Miller M,Williams K,Conly J,Singer J,Ioannou S

更新日期：1998-05-01 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：: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：BACKGROUND:Of 1 346 700 total deaths each year in the US, an estimated 440 100 are smoking related, making it the leading preventable cause of premature death in the US. Despite the health and economic benefits of smoking cessation being well documented, reimbursement coverage for smoking cessation therapies is general...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Howard P,Knight C,Boler A,Baker C

更新日期：2008-01-01 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:There is evidence that the earlier a patient reaches hospital and receives thrombolysis, the better the outcome. The GREAT (Grampian Region Early Anistreplase Trial) directly addressed the issue of early thrombolysis by evaluating, in a randomised controlled trial, the efficacy of thrombolysis in the communi...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Vale L,Steffens H,Donaldson C

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The objective of this study was to examine the cost effectiveness of fluvoxamine compared with tricyclic antidepressants (TCAs) in the treatment of patients with depressive episodes. DESIGN AND SETTING:A Markov process model was constructed to model the effectiveness, as measured by time without depression, ...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Nuijten M,Hadjadjeba L,Evans C,van den Berg J

更新日期：1998-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this review, the economic aspects of pneumococcal pneumonia are analysed, including the costs, cost effectiveness and cost benefit of treatment and prevention. We identified eight cost-of-illness studies, 15 analyses comparing the costs of different treatment options and 15 economic evaluations of prevention that m...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： De Graeve D,Beutels P

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00