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Message Tailoring: An Essential Component for Disease Management

Bulger, David W.; Smith, Amy B. - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 5 (1999) 3, pp. 127-134

Disease management is an approach to patient care that includes health promotion and disease prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation, as well as long term care. Research indicates that providing health promotion, disease prevention and disease self-management information that is...

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Patient-Reported Outcomes, Patient-Reported Information: From Randomized Controlled Trials to the Social Web and Beyond

Baldwin, Mike; Spong, Andrew; Doward, Lynda; … - In: The Patient: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research 4 (2011) 1, pp. 11-17

Internet communication is developing. Social networking sites enable patients to publish and receive communications very easily. Many stakeholders, including patients, are using these media to find new ways to make sense of diseases, to find and discuss treatments, and to give support to...

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Offering Results to Participants in a Diabetes Survey: Effects on Survey Response Rates

Ziegenfuss, Jeanette Y.; Shah, Nilay D.; Deming, James R.; … - In: The Patient: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research 4 (2011) 4, pp. 241-245

Background:Background: There are many reasons why an investigator may choose to share results with survey respondents; however, the practice is not universal. Moreover, while there is some evidence that the practice increases response rates, it is of limited generalizability. Abstract:...

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A Pilot Study to Identify Areas for Further Improvements in Patient and Public Involvement in Health Technology Assessments for Medicines

Messina, Josie; Grainger, David. L. - In: The Patient: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research 5 (2012) 3, pp. 199-211

Background:Background: Patient and public participation in health technology assessment (HTA) of medicines has been cited as an important component of the decision-making structure; however, how to actually achieve meaningful involvement is less understood. Abstract: Objectives:Objectives: Our...

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Direct Healthcare Costs of Osteoporosis-Related Fractures in Managed Care Patients Receiving Pharmacological Osteoporosis Therapy

Viswanathan, Hema N.; Curtis, Jeffrey R.; Yu, Jingbo; … - In: Applied Health Economics and Health Policy 10 (2012) 3, pp. 163-173

Background:Background: Osteoporosis is a common condition and the economic burden of osteoporosis-related fractures is … significant. While studies have reported the incremental or attributable costs of osteoporosis-related fracture, data on the … economic impact of osteoporosis-related fractures in commercial health plan populations are limited. Abstract: Objective …

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Current and Future Economic Burden of Osteoporosis in New Zealand

Brown, Paul; McNeill, Rob; Leung, William; Radwan, Eman; … - In: Applied Health Economics and Health Policy 9 (2011) 2, pp. 111-123

Background: Osteoporosis is recognized as a serious health condition in developed as well as developing countries …. There are no accurate estimates of the extent of the burden of osteoporosis in New Zealand. The purpose of this study was to … estimate the economic burden of osteoporosis in New Zealand using data from international studies and population and health …

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Osteoporotic Fractures: A Systematic Review of US Healthcare Costs and Resource Utilization

Budhia, Sangeeta; Mikyas, Yeshi; Tang, Michael; … - In: PharmacoEconomics 30 (2012) 2, pp. 147-170

osteoporosis-related fractures in the US. We conducted a systematic literature review of published studies that used claims … databases and economic studies reporting costs associated with osteoporosis-related fractures in the US. Studies published … used and the fracture assessment. Despite the variability in estimates, the literature indicates that osteoporosis …

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Unique Co-Operative Worksite-Based Osteoporosis Project: Employer, Healthcare Plan and Pharmaceutical Company Combine Efforts to Screen and Manage Women at Risk

Cantley, Larry K.; Summers, Cheryl; Rice, David E. - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 9 (2001) 11, pp. 641-649

Background: Osteoporosis is considered a disease that affects elderly women. Younger, working-aged women are seldom … on a risk assessment, were potentially at risk of osteopenia or osteoporosis. Forearm bone density was assessed for each … proportion of these women (with low bone mass) were confirmed to have osteopenia or osteoporosis by their physicians, and started …

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Cost Estimates for Chronic Diseases

Woo, Jean; Cockram, Clive - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 8 (2000) 1, pp. 29-41

With increasing chronic disease and disability burden as a result of the aging of populations worldwide, cost estimates of disease and disability are important in determining: 1. the most cost-effective methods in delivering healthcare in order to maximise resources; and 2. health policies and...

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The Burden of Osteoporosis and the Case for Disease Management

Fraser, William D. - In: Disease Management and Health Outcomes 12 (2004) 6, pp. 409-418

Currently, osteoporosis, defined as low bone mineral density (BMD), affects 30% of postmenopausal women and 8% of men …. Osteoporosis-related fractures increase with age and reductions in BMD, with the greatest increase in hip, followed by vertebral …, and then wrist fractures. Osteoporosis is associated with significant mortality and for each 1 SD decrease in BMD there is …

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