After 20 Years of Using Economic Evaluation, Should NICE be Considered a Methods Innovator?

abstract：:The annual cost of managing migraine totals billions of US dollars. This retrospective economic analysis of a clinical trial comparing subcutaneous dihydroergotamine mesylate (DHE) with subcutaneous sumatriptan in the treatment of acute migraine is appropriate because, although each product has been shown to be effica...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Payne K,Kozma CM,Lawrence BJ

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In Australia, many patients who are initiated on asthma controller inhalers receive combination inhaled corticosteroid/long-acting beta2-agonist (ICS/LABA) despite having asthma of sufficiently low severity that ICS-alone would be equally effective and less costly for the government. METHODS:We conducted a ...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Laba TL,Reddel HK,Zwar NJ,Marks GB,Roughead E,Flynn A,Goldman M,Heaney A,Lembke K,Jan S

更新日期：2019-02-01 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：: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：:The past few years have seen rapid changes in the methods of decision-analytic modelling of healthcare programmes for the purposes of economic evaluation. This paper focuses on four developments in modelling that have emerged over the past few years or have become more widely used. First, no one optimal method for ext...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Weinstein MC

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) are widely used for the relief of the symptoms of osteoarthritis (OA), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), sprains and strains, sports injuries and menstrual disorders, and have a small role in the management of patent ductus arteriosus in the neonate. In patients with RA, symptom...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Wynne HA,Campbell M

更新日期：1993-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this article is to review the literature related to economic outcomes associated with treating allergic rhinitis. A literature review was conducted using 'Medline' and the in-house database of the publishers of this journal for articles published between January 1991 and January 1996. Only 3 cost-outcom...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Kozma CM,Sadik MK,Watrous ML

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Advanced controlled release (CR) dosage forms are relative newcomers to pharmaceutical markets, and few studies relate their efficacy, safety or compliance benefits to economic value. This literature review was undertaken to assess the cost effectiveness of CR dosage forms using such measures as purchase costs, total ...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Cramer MP,Saks SR

更新日期：1994-06-01 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：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：OBJECTIVE:Patients with cancer-associated neutropenia are at high risk of developing severe infections which can be fatal if treatment is not promptly administered. For this reason, fever is treated as soon as possible with broad spectrum antibacterial therapy. The objective of this study was to conduct a cost analysis...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Bucaneve G,Menichetti F,Del Favero A

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Candidaemia and other forms of invasive candidiasis (C/IC) are serious and costly events for hospitalized patients, particularly those in the ICU. Both fluconazole and the echinocandins are recommended as first-line therapy for C/IC. Resource use and cost considerations are important in selecting appropriate...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Reboli AC,Rotstein C,Kett DH,Maschio M,Cartier S,Chambers R,Tarallo M

更新日期：2011-08-01 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：BACKGROUND:Assessing the societal perspective in economic evaluations of new interventions requires estimates of indirect non-medical costs caused by the disease. Different methods exist for measuring the labor input function as a surrogate for these costs. They rarely specify the effect of health on labor and who gain...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Standaert B,Sauboin C,Leclerc QJ,Connolly MP

更新日期：2020-11-25 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The study objective was to evaluate and compare quality-of-life (QOL) parameters between patients with type 2 (non-insulin-dependent) diabetes mellitus who changed therapy from an oral hypoglycaemic agent (OHA) to insulin and those who remained on an OHA. DESIGN:The World Health Organization Quality of Life ...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Pibernik-Okanović M,Szabo S,Metelko Z

更新日期：1998-08-01 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：: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 current US drug innovation financing framework rests on the notion that a defined period of marketing exclusivity combined with the expectation of reimbursement for clinically valuable, cost-effective therapies, followed by vigorous price competition from generic drugs and biosimilars ensures a sufficient return o...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Cutler D,Kirson N,Long G

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

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 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：:Migraine headache is responsible for significantly more healthcare resource and lost labour costs than previously reported. Costs associated with migraine were assessed via a survey conducted in 940 patients, 70% of whom responded. All met the International Headache Society's diagnostic criteria for migraine and had ...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Osterhaus JT,Gutterman DL,Plachetka JR

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several vaccine and antibody candidates are currently in development for the prevention of lower respiratory tract infections caused by the respiratory syncytial virus (RSV). METHODS:We searched MEDLINE, Embase, and SCOPUS and included model-based evaluations of RSV vaccinations. Two reviewers performed the...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Treskova M,Pozo-Martin F,Scholz S,Schönfeld V,Wichmann O,Harder T

更新日期：2021-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of cost-effectiveness methodology is particularly important in widespread diseases such as hypertension. However, because prospective cost-effectiveness analyses comparing different antihypertensive drugs are not currently available, differences in the cost effectiveness of these drugs can only be esti...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Van Bortel LM,Ament AJ

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to establish the incidence of surgical amputation for critical leg ischaemia in New Zealand, and estimate the hospital, prostheses and indirect costs of this intervention. The cost of amputations was then compared with the cost of treating such patients with iloprost. The study was retr...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Scott HM,Scott WG

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health economic modelling studies are of interest to many parties with different responsibilities and diverging interests. Therefore, it is obvious that recognising the relevance of statistical uncertainty and dealing with it appropriately are required to obtain unbiased results from health economic modelling studies,...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Nuijten MJ

更新日期：2004-01-01 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：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：:Community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) is a common diagnosis and care of CAP is responsible for significant healthcare expenditures, the majority of which are for patients who require hospitalisation. Studies have shown that significant variation exists among institutions with respect to antibacterial costs and length of ...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Brown PD

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVE:The aim of the present study is to describe a refinement of a previously presented method, based on the concept of point sensitivity, to deal with uncertainty in economic studies. DESIGN:The original method was refined by the incorporation of probability distributions which allow a more accurate assessment o...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Nuijten MJ

更新日期：1999-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a progressive inflammatory lung disease associated with increasing morbidity and mortality and an economic burden that stretches beyond the patient to healthcare systems. Avoiding exacerbations and subsequent hospitalizations is an important clinical aim and ca...

journal_title：PharmacoEconomics

authors： Mittmann N,Hernandez P,Mellström C,Brannman L,Welte T

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00