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Cost of illness studies on reproductive, maternal, newborn, and child health : a systematic literature review
Saha, Sanjib; Gerdtham, Ulf-G. - In: Health economics review 3 (2013) 24, pp. 1-12
, with limited data on low and middle income countries. The burden of disease is very high even for single complications. For … example, the disease burden related to non-exclusive breastfeeding was given as 14.39 billion international dollars (ID) (2012 …
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Patient and health system costs of managing pregnancy and birth-related complications in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review
Mori, Amani Thomas; Binyaruka, Peter; Hangoma, Peter; … - In: Health economics review 10 (2020) 26, pp. 1-15
Background: Morbidity and mortality due to pregnancy and childbearing are high in developing countries. This study aims … to estimate patient and health system costs of managing pregnancy and birth-related complications in sub-Saharan Africa … review to compile comprehensive up-to-date patient and health system costs of managing pregnancy and birth …
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Preferences of patients with asthma or COPD for treatments in pulmonary rehabilitation
Damm, Kathrin; Lingner, Heidrun; Schmidt, Katharina; … - In: Health economics review 11 (2021) 1, pp. 1-12
Introduction: Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) aims to improve disease control in patients with chronic obstructive … pulmonary disease (COPD) and asthma. However, the success of PR-programs depends on the patients' participation and willingness …
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Preferences for health insurance in Germany and the Netherlands : a tale of two countries
Leukert-Becker, Karolin; Zweifel, Peter - In: Health economics review 4 (2014) 22, pp. 1-11
Background: This contribution seeks to measure preferences for health insurance in Germany and the Netherlands, using two Discrete Choice Experiments (DCE). Since the Dutch DCE was carried out right after the 2006 health reform, which made citizens explicitly choose a health insurance contract,...
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Evaluating the concordance of physician judgments and patient preferences on AIDS/HIV therapy : a Discrete Choice Experiment
Mühlbacher, Axel; Stoll, Matthias; Mahlich, Jörg C.; … - In: Health economics review 3 (2013) 30, pp. 1-11
random effect logit model was employed. In view of the physicians avoidance of an obvious perceptibility of the disease the …
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Experimental measurement of preferences in health care using best-worst scaling (BWS): theoretical and statistical issues
Mühlbacher, Axel; Zweifel, Peter; Kaczynski, Anika; … - In: Health economics review 6 (2016) 5, pp. 1-12
For optimal solutions in health care, decision makers inevitably must evaluate trade-offs, which call for multiattribute valuation methods. Researchers have proposed using best-worst scaling (BWS) methods which seek to extract information from respondents by asking them to identify the best and...
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Using discrete choice experiments to measure preferences for hard to observe choice attributes to inform health policy decisions
Van den Broek-Altenburg, Eline; Atherly, Adam - In: Health economics review 10 (2020) 18, pp. 1-8
Background: Models of preferences in health services research (HSR) and Health Economics are often defined by readily available information, such as that captured in claims data and electronic health records. Yet many important questions about patient choices cannot be easily studied because of...
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Heterogeneity in general practitioners' preferences for quality improvement programs : a choice experiment and policy simulation in France
Ammi, Mehdi; Peyron, Christine - In: Health economics review 6 (2016) 44, pp. 1-11
Despite increasing popularity, quality improvement programs (QIP) have had modest and variable impacts on enhancing the quality of physician practice. We investigate the heterogeneity of physicians’ preferences as a potential explanation of these mixed results in France, where the national...
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Patient preferences for epilepsy treatment : a systematic review of discrete choice experimental studies
Al-Aqeel, Sinaa; Alotaiwi, Reem; Albugami, Bushra - In: Health economics review 13 (2023) 1, pp. 1-13
Background This review aimed to 1) identify and assess the quality of discrete choice experiments (DCEs) examining preferences related to epilepsy treatment; 2) summarize the attributes and attribute levels measured in these studies; 3) identify how researchers selected and developed these...
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Regional differences in health care of patients with inflammatory bowel disease in Germany
Lange, Ansgar; Prenzler, Anne; Bachmann, Frank Oliver; … - In: Health economics review 5 (2015) 29, pp. 1-11
of 21,771 individuals, including 9282 patients with Crohn disease and 12,489 patients with ulcerative colitis. Patients …
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