The article analyzes to which extent residential proximity from an emergency hospital affects the probability of surviving an acute myocardial infarction (AMI). The critical time aspect in AMI treatment provides an ideal application for evaluating this proximity-outcome hypothesis. Previous...

Recent health care centralization trends raise the important question of the extent to which the quality of emergency medical services may offset effects from decreased access to emergency health care. This article analyzes whether residential proximity from an emergency room affects the...

The main purpose of this study is to examine: (1) The dynamic changes in cost containment and quality that have occurred under the National Health Insurance (NHI) program in Taiwan; (2) The trade-off effect relationship between cost and quality. This paper uses an empirical model to look at data...

This paper evaluates the causal negative effect of environmental tobacco exposure on health by exploiting the time and geographical variation in public-place smoking bans implemented in Switzerland between 2007 and 2011. Using monthly data from the universe of Swiss hospitals between 2004 and...

The 2001 White Paper and its development in the 3rd European Road Safety Action Program, represent a turning point in the history of the European Road Safety Policy. The possible determinants of the road mortality in the EU over (2000-2009) are examined using a panel data. Our main finding is...

Objective: We compared the estimated costs of coronary interventions from our hospital's cost accounting system with data from the French Diagnosis Related Group (DRG) cost database, taking the perspective of our hospital. Design: Cost data on hospital resources used by patients hospitalised for...

Objective: To evaluate the relationship between how much a new cardiovascular therapy improves clinical outcomes over current therapies and how much more it can cost while still remaining Design: We developed a decision model to predict the 6-month cumulative cost savings and increased life...

Economic analysis has been extensively used to guide the use of ACE inhibitors in chronic heart failure. More recently, it has been used to guide the use of ACE inhibitors after myocardial infarction. The results of major clinical trials leave us in no doubt that ACE inhibitors are useful in the...

Objective: To compare the costs to the Spanish healthcare system of 35 days' treatment with triflusal (600 mg/day) and aspirin (300 mg/day) in patients with confirmed acute myocardial infarction within 24 hours of onset of symptoms. Design: A cost minimisation analysis based on the results of...

Objective: To estimate the cost effectiveness of treatment with n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA) for secondary prevention after myocardial infarction (MI). Design and setting: The cost-effectiveness analysis of n-3 PUFA treatment after MI was based on morbidity and mortality data and the...