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mortality associated with under-use 2. increased demand for related medical resources when the health state following an AMI is …
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. The effect of the vintage of prescription drugs (and other variables) on the life expectancy and age-adjusted mortality … replacement of older drugs by newer drugs. The effect of the vintage of chemotherapy treatments on age-adjusted cancer mortality … mortality rates, and may have accounted for as much as half of the decline. …
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systematically review the published literature on the YPLL and the value of productivity loss from morbidity and premature mortality … results on YPLL, eight on mortality costs and five on morbidity costs. Some studies reported results in more than one category … per death and morbidity and mortality costs. The average number of YPLL per death was approximately 15 for melanoma and 10 …
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and mortality. The objective of this study was to explore whether successful identification of population-specific risk … factors for disease-associated morbidity and mortality may allow for more accurate assessment of the cost effectiveness of …
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high rates of morbidity and mortality. The causes of drug-related problems are multifactorial and their assessment has been … potential to increase the value of pharmaceuticals in society by minimising drug-related morbidity and mortality. Thus, well …
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Objective: Recent data indicate that the combination of a low cholesterol diet and simvastatin following heart transplantation is associated with significant reduction of serum cholesterol levels, lower incidence of graft vessel disease (GVD) and significantly superior 4-year survival rates than...
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mortality is equally significant and has been conservatively estimated at $US30 billion dollars annually, and could exceed $US … mortality has become an increasingly important requirement for reducing healthcare expenditures. This article will review …
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lowered rates of total mortality and rehospitalisation due to heart failure. Design and Setting: The cost …
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Objective: To simulate the treatment of postmenopausal women with advanced breast cancer from second-line hormone therapy to death, and to generate estimates of the cost and effectiveness of letrozole and megestrol in order to determine the incremental cost effectiveness of letrozole, expressed...
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Objective: We constructed a UK-based decision model of palliative care for terminally ill cancer patients who were switched from a weak to a strong opioid so that the expected direct healthcare costs in the UK could be estimated from the time a patient commenced a strong opioid until death....
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