Objectives: An increasing emphasis on patient-centred health care and shared decision making requires an intensive consideration of patient preferences. In the present study, patient preferences regarding treatment of HIV/AIDS were explored using direct assessment and discrete choice experiment...

Objective: Osteoporotic fractures impose a huge economic burden on society. Though several cost of illness studies from other countries exist, no equivalent study has been conducted in Austria. Our study aims at assessing costs resulting from osteoporotic fractures in Austria in the year 2008...

The Korean government believes it can turn the country into one of the top 10 competitive economies by 2010. This volume offers an in-depth analysis of the Korean innovation system and shows how its science and technology policies actually work. As Korea's economy is now reaching the status of a...

Abstract Against the background of decreasing competitiveness of German pharmaceutical firms, we analyze the impact of institutional framework conditions on the performance of research-based pharmaceutical enterprises. Reviewing the literature, we find ample empirical evidence that both strict...

The results can be interpreted as further evidence of the deteriorating effect of regulation on firm’s incentives to invest in R&D. </AbstractSection> Copyright Eger and Mahlich; licensee Springer. 2014

Discrete Choice Experiment proved to be a valid survey technique in the evaluation of AIDS/HIV treatment preferences as assessed by patients and by physicians assessing the view of their patients. Covering a broad range of treatment characteristics, the physician assessments of preferences were...

The financial burden of osteoporotic fractures in Austria is substantial. Our findings may have implications for future economic analyses, and also support health care authorities in their decision making. </AbstractSection> Copyright Dimai et al.; licensee Springer. 2012

PLAI dominates RLAI and compared with the other treatment strategies PLAI has shown to be more effective but results in higher costs in base-case scenario. </AbstractSection> Copyright Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2013