This paper investigates the economic burden of multiple sclerosis (MS) in Sweden in 1994. The cost structure was compared with costs from a similar study from 1991 and 3 studies from the UK. The cost-of-illness method, based on the human capital theory, was used to estimate the economic burden...

Background: The Fracture Intervention Trial (FIT) demonstrated that the bisphosphonate alendronate reduces the risk of hip, spine and wrist fracture in osteoporotic women by approximately one half. Objective: To use data from FIT to conduct a cost-effectiveness analysis of alendronate. Design: A...

Objective: To investigate the relationship between cognitive impairment, measured with the Mini Mental State Examination (MMSE), and the cost of care. Design: The study uses data from the Kungsholmen project, a population-based study in Sweden in which people 75 years and older were observed...

Objective: To investigate the cost effectiveness of adding the beta-blocker bisoprolol to standard treatment in patients with congestive heart failure (CHF). Design and setting: A cost-effectiveness study was based on the Cardiac Insufficiency Bisoprolol Study II (CIBIS-II), a randomised...

No consensus has yet been reached on how to analyse uncertainty in economic evaluation studies where individual patient data are available for costs and health effects. This paper summarises the available results regarding the analysis of uncertainty on the cost-effectiveness plane and argues...

Objective: To investigate the cost effectiveness of exemestane compared to megestrol in post-menopausal women after tamoxifen failure. Design and setting: A modelling study from the third-party payer perspective in Australia, Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain and the United...