Objective: To estimate the cost-effectiveness of the supply of calcium of 1200mg per day from the week 14 of pregnancy to all pregnant women compared to not supplying it to reduce the incidence of preeclampsia. Methods: A decision tree was built in TreeAge® with outcome measured in life years...

Objective: To estimate the cost-effectiveness for Colombia of four asymptomatic-bacteriuria (ABU) screening alternatives in pregnant women: a) urine culture, b) Gram stain, c) urianalysis and d) urianalysis followed by urine culture after a positive result.Methods: Two decision trees were built...

Objective: To estimate the cost-effectiveness of the etiological approach with rapid tests at the site of care compared to the syndromic diagnosis in non-pregnant women with symptoms of lower genital tract infection.Materials and Methods: A decision tree was built in TreeAge® to estimate the...

Objective: To estimate the cost-effectiveness of local vs. oral antibiotic in non-pregnant women with vaginal discharge suggestive of bacterial vaginosis.Methods: We compared four combinations of antibiotics for the first option and for the treatment of clinical failure: vaginal clindamycin and...

The paper presents an overview of the several sources used by researchers in economics and related fields. It shows the features and advantages of these sources, the characteristics than in this discipline have books, articles and journals, as well as how they are ranked and how impact...

This article surveys the literature on risk aversion in medical decision making. Risk aversion concepts are presented in the frameworks of Subjective Expected Utility and Rank Dependent Expected Utility theories. The methodologies for measuring risk aversion and its applications to clinical...

Objective: To assess the cost-effectiveness of risk stratification tests vs. not doing them in pediatric population with acute myeloid leukemia (AML).Methods: A decision tree model was built with life years gained as outcome, from the perspective of the health system, and including all direct...

Methods: A decision tree model was built with life years gained as outcome, from the perspective of the health system, and including all direct costs. Pharmaceutical prices were obtained from the System of Information of Medicaments SISMED (2008), and the value of procedures was calculated from...

Objetive: To assess the cost effectiveness of unrelated stem cell transplantation versus consolidation chemotherapy in pediatric population with high-risk acute myeloid leukemia (AML).Methods: A decision tree model was built with life years gained as outcome, from the perspective of the health...