In an effort to improve patient outcomes and reduce resource use and costs associated with asthma care, asthma disease management programmes have now gained momentum. If a programme is to be effective, the identification of goals and outcomes relevant to the target populations is essential....

Asthma is a chronic condition with characteristics that make it an ideal target for interventions used within disease state management in managed care settings. It affects a substantial population of patients and imposes an increasingly significant global societal burden. Despite the...

Background & Objective: In France, non-homeopathic general practitioners (GPs) often use antibacterials to treat children with recurrent acute viral rhinopharyngitis; whereas homeopathic GPs tend to use homeopathic medicines. We compared the effectiveness, the quality of life of the parents, and...

One of the most common means to test for the temporal reliability of willingness-to-pay (WTP) values is the

The purpose of this paper is to argue that systematic data heterogeneity exists when the objective of pharmacotherapy is improved health-related quality of life (HR-QOL), and that the pharmacotherapy's cost effectiveness will vary inversely with the patient's baseline HR-QOL (BHR-QOL), the...

Objective: To describe the epidemiological, clinical and economic changes that occurred in the HIV epidemic in Italy prior to and after the introduction of highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART). Design: A prospective, observational, multicentre case-control study was conducted comparing...

A fundamental goal of growth hormone (GH) treatment for both adults and children is improvement in quality of life (QOL). Assessments of the therapeutic role of GH depend on its effectiveness in meeting this and other goals (including improved metabolic status in adults and improved growth in...

Objective: The negative metabolic and psychosocial consequences of growth hormone deficiency (GHD) in adults are now well established. In the present study, an attempt was made to quantify the burden of illness, in terms of lost productivity and increased medical consumption, associated with...

The factors that may lead to an impaired quality of life in congestive heart failure (CHF) are physical symptoms, psychological problems, treatment adverse effects and social limitation. There are now several general and disease-specific quality-of-life (QOL) questionnaires which have been used...