Purpose: To describe the economic burden of cancer survivorship for disease-free breast, colorectal and prostate cancer patients in the UK, one year post-diagnosis. Methods: Patient-level data were collected over a three months period 12-15 months post diagnosis to estimate the monthly societal...

Aim: To assess the cost-effectiveness of peer-based sexual behaviour education interventions in prison settings to prevent primary and secondary HIV infections. Methods: Based on the results of a systematic review of peer-based interventions in prison settings, we developed a Bernoulli model to...

Purpose: To provide insights on the relationship between health and employment in older age. Design/methodology: Qualitative methods are used with some additional quantitative analysis to explore generalisations. The qualitative analysis is based on interviews with 56 men and women between the...

Background: Trastuzumab has significantly improved survival outcomes for women with HER2 positive early breast cancer. Trastuzumab was established as a costeffective adjuvant treatment in 2006. We present an updated cost-effectiveness analysis from the UK perspective which explores assumptions...

Chronic pain is pain that persists for longer than 3 months: it affects between 13% - 36% of the Irish population. The current cost of pain study was carried out in the context of the increasing need for transparency in health expenditure and allocation of scarce resources. Previous...

Objective: To explore the advantages and disadvantages of different retraction devices used for laparoscopic surgery. The main focus was on its impact on operation time, length of stay, use of staff, complications or negative outcomes (such as pain, liver functioning or damage, blood loss),...

The widely used proportional odds model is developed for correlated repeated ordinal score data, using a modified version of the generalized estimating equation (GEE) method for model fitting for a range of working correlation models. The algorithm developed estimates the correlation parameter,...