Las primas de reaseguro para enfermedades catastróficas en el sistema de salud colombiano han sido tradicionalmente estimadas a partir de métodos actuariales. Este artículo presenta la equivalencia entre las opciones call europeas y el funcionamiento del reaseguro en Colombia y concluye que...

En personas con diabetes, una infección en el pie frecuentemente conduce a amputación. La radiografía plana es el método tradicionalmente usado en la evaluación de las infeccionas óseas del pie, pero comparada con ella, la resonancia magnética es más sensible y específica. Se realiza...

Se evalúa con un árbol de decisión la costo-efectividad de la adición del Péptido Natriuréticotipo B al índice de Riesgo Cardiaco Revisado de Lee en la valoración del riesgo cardiovascular en pacientes sometidos a cirugía mayor no cardiaca. La estrategia Lee =3 a un costo de Col $79.452...

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 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...