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Favourable cost-benefit in an early defibrillation program using dual dispatch of ambulance and fire services in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
Sund, Björn; Svensson, Leif; Rosenqvist, Mårten; … - 2010
Aims: Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is fatal without treatment and time to defibrillation is an extremely … important factor in relation to survival. We performed a cost-benefit analysis of dual dispatch defibrillation by ambulance and … effects of dual dispatch defibrillation. The increased survival rates were estimated from a real world implemented …
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Favourable cost-benefit in an early defibrillation program using dual dispatch of ambulance and fire services in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
Sund, Björn; Svensson, Leif; Rosenqvist, Mårten; … - Handelshögskolan, Örebro Universitet - 2010
Aims: Out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA) is fatal without treatment and time to defibrillation is an extremely … important factor in relation to survival. We performed a cost-benefit analysis of dual dispatch defibrillation by ambulance and … the effects of dual dispatch defibrillation. The increased survival rates were estimated from a real world implemented …
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Favourable cost-benefit in an early defibrillation programme using dual dispatch of ambulance and fire services in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest
Sund, Björn; Svensson, Leif; Rosenqvist, Mårten; … - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 13 (2012) 6, pp. 811-818
The intervention of dual dispatch defibrillation by ambulance and fire services in the County of Stockholm had positive …
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Social Discount Rates
Valentim, Joice - 2008
A social time preference methodology derived from Feldstein (1965) is applied to calculate social discount rates across 167 countries and across time from 2005-2050 for a country case (Brazil). This attempt seeks to compute comparable figures from a homogeneous dataset and provides a...
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Handbook for the Incorporation of Economic Analysis into Clinical Practice Guidelines (Instructivo para la Incorporación de la Evaluación Económica en Guías de Práctica Clínica) (S...
Chicaíza, Liliana; Gamboa, Oscar; García Molina, Mario - 2009
The paper presents the main methodological aspects to taking to account for making economic analysis in the context of a clinical practice guideline in a developing country. It is addressed to users of health economic analyses in order to enhance knowledge of what economic analyses are, their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014200187
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Instructivo para la incorporación de la evaluación económica en guías de práctica clínica
Chicaíza, Liliana; Gamboa, Oscar; García, Mario - UN - RCE - CID - 2009
El presente documento muestra los principales aspectos metodológicos a tener en cuenta para incorporar la evaluación económica en una guía de práctica clínica en países en desarrollo. El documento está dirigido a los usuarios de las evaluaciones económicas en salud para ampliar el...
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A Note on Confidence Intervals in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Tambour, Magnus; Zethraeus, Niklas; Johannesson, Magnus - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 1997
How to obtain confidence intervals for cost-effectiveness ratios is complicated by the statistical problems to obtain a confidence interval for a ratio of random variables. Different approaches have been suggested in the literature, but no consensus has been reached. In this note we propose an...
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Initial emergency response performance of fire fighters in Malaysia
Subramaniam, Chandrakantan; Ali, Hassan; Mohd … - In: International Journal of Public Sector Management 25 (2012) 1, pp. 64-73
Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to identify the initial emergency response time of fire fighting teams in Malaysia. Design/methodology/approach – In an emergency incident time is of the essence, and the basic philosophy of an emergency response agency is to respond as quickly as...
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Altruism and egoism: Measurable by utility discount rates?
Bayer, Stefan - 2000
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Closed-Form Integrated Assessment and Uncertainty
Traeger, Christian - 2015
The paper derives the optimal carbon tax in closed-form from an integrated assessment of climate change. The formula shows how carbon, temperature, and economic dynamics quantify the optimal mitigation effort. The model’s descriptive power is comparable to numeric models used in policy...
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