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lost work hours, medication costs and healthcare usage. Many different forms of treatment are available for migraine …
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Objective: The objective of the study was to develop a procedure to distribute health resources among treatments for the primary prevention of coronary heart disease based on efficiency and equity. Design and Setting: Two procedures to manage pharmaceutical resources for the primary prevention...
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medical and economic resources, particularly if hospitalization is required. Indeed, it has been estimated that annual costs … to achieve the best patient outcome thereby potentially reducing healthcare costs, largely as a result of a decrease in … treatment of patients with CAP led to a decrease in healthcare resource costs compared with conventional management in a …
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Breast cancer is the most common malignancy affecting women and imposes a substantial economic burden on society. Estrogen is thought to play a major role in both the initiation and promotion of hormone dependent breast cancer, and a number of well recognized risk factors for breast cancer...
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Background: The use of utility values in cost-effectiveness analysis is an accepted method for defining outcomes. Increasingly, cost-effectiveness analyses examine outcomes that involve two or more health states. There is no accepted method of mathematically combining single health state utility...
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This article evaluates the cost effectiveness of and patients' willingness to pay for interventions by community pharmacists in the overall context of pharmaceutical care. The rationale for interventions by pharmacists in patient care is examined from the viewpoint of clinical and economic needs...
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intangible costs. Economic evaluations include cost-benefit, cost-effectiveness and cost-utility studies. In obtaining data for … either direct or indirect costs. Using such data, healthcare policies may be formulated towards cost reduction, whether …
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Episodes of care provide a clinically meaningful unit of analysis for measuring both the cost and quality of patient care. Many health plans are currently using episode of care grouping software in cost-focused provider profiling applications. These profiles compare the cost for one provider to...
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adherence to HAART. Since there are no studies exploring the costs associated with poor adherence to HAART, we discuss potential … direct and indirect costs accrued with more frequent treatment failures, selection of resistant strains, increased …
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in specific costs included. Three US cost analyses found that piperacillin/tazobactam had lower total medical costs than …-acquired pneumonia. Piperacillin/tazobactam plus amikacin had lower total costs than ceftazidime plus amikacin in another cost analysis … costs per unit of effectiveness versus comparators. Piperacillin/tazobactam was dominant (greater efficacy and lower costs …
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