national health economic guidelines about the inclusion or exclusion of these costs. For those studies that did include …Background:Background: When guidelines for health economic evaluations prescribe that a societal perspective should be … adopted, productivity costs should be included. However, previous research suggests that, in practice, productivity costs are …

cancer have reported only modest gains in survival. These health gains are achieved at considerable cost, but economic … the bibliographic databases PubMed, EMBASE and Health Economic Evaluations (HEED) [via the Cochrane Library] for … methodological quality of the full economic evaluations was fairly good. Transparency in costs and resource use, details on …

inpatients, societal costs of CF may be high. As the disease severity varies considerably among patients, costs may differ … between patients. Abstract: Objectives:Objectives: Our objectives were to calculate the average total costs of CF per patient … and per year from a societal perspective; to include all direct medical and non-medical costs as well as indirect costs …

Background:Background: National EQ-5D value sets are developed because preferences for health may vary in different … populations. UK values are lower than US values for most of the 243 possible EQ-5D health states. Although similar protocols were … national value sets. Participants in the UK and US studies assessed the same subset of 42 EQ-5D health states using the time …

economic impact of non-remission on health service use and costs over 12 months from the index episode in patients with …Background: Research has consistently demonstrated a relationship between depression and increased levels of health … health service use and cost over the 12-month study period, by remission status, where remission is defined as patients not …

for Belgium from a payer perspective and the results were presented as costs per QALY gained (&U20AC;, year 2009 values …

Introduction: Little is known regarding healthcare costs for HIV/AIDS patients in the era of highly active … dosages, tests and diagnostic procedures, outpatient visits and inpatient stays. The review used publicly available unit costs …-drug costs increased with a decreasing CD4 cell count. Conclusions: Overall, approximately half of the direct costs of HIV …