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Babies in waiting: Why increasing the IVF age cut-off might lead to fewer wanted pregnancies in the presence of procrastination

Dolan, Paul; Rudisill, Caroline - In: Health Policy 119 (2015) 2, pp. 174-179

Despite the best of intentions, we often act at the last minute when we are faced with a deadline. A recent recommendation by the English National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) to make In Vitro Fertilisation (IVF) available to women up to 42 years of age instead of 39...

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Cost-effectiveness of trastuzumab in metastatic breast cancer: Mainly a matter of price in the EU?

Garattini, Livio; van de Vooren, Katelijne; Curto, … - In: Health Policy 119 (2015) 2, pp. 212-216

Trastuzumab (TR), a monoclonal antibody approved by EMA in 2000 and one of the first examples of “targeted therapy”, is indicated to treat human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) positive breast cancer. TR, whose patent will expire in 2015 in Europe, has been judged positively for...

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Impacts of Advances in Medical Technology in Australia

Commission, Productivity - Productivity Commission, Government of Australia

the Productivity Commission research report into the ‘Impacts of Advances in Medical Technology in Australia’ was released on 20 September 2005. The report responds to a request from the Australian Government to examine the impact of advances in medical technology on public and private...

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Social values and health priority setting in Germany

Kieslich, Katharina - In: Journal of Health Organization and Management 26 (2012) 3, pp. 374-383

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of health priority setting structures in Germany. It reflects on how and which social values may influence decision making, and in particular investigates the role of the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG)...

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A proposal for a new social values research program and policy network

Littlejohns, Peter; Yeung, Kai; Clark, Sarah; Weale, Albert - In: Journal of Health Organization and Management 26 (2012) 3, pp. 407-421

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate that the social values framework developed by Clark and Weale could be applied to publicly available data and to explore the concordance between the framework values and those present in the statements of decision‐making protocols of...

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Multi‐criteria development and incorporation into decision tools for health technology adoption

Poulin, Paule; Austen, Lea; Scott, Catherine M.; … - In: Journal of Health Organization and Management 27 (2013) 2, pp. 246-265

Purpose – When introducing new health technologies, decision makers must integrate research evidence with local operational management information to guide decisions about whether and under what conditions the technology will be used. Multi‐criteria decision analysis can support the adoption...

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What factors determine the choice of public engagement undertaken by health technology assessment decision-making organizations?

Wortley, Sally; Street, Jackie; Lipworth, Wendy; … - In: Journal of Health Organization and Management 30 (2016) 6, pp. 872-890

Purpose Public engagement in health technology assessment (HTA) is increasingly considered crucial for good decision making. Determining the “right” type of engagement activity is key in achieving the appropriate consideration of public values. Little is known about the factors that...

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Does disability explain state-level differences in the quality of Medicare beneficiary hospital inpatient care?

Armour, Brian S.; Pitts, M. Melinda - 2007

. Research has shown that the presence of a disability can crowd out treatment for medical conditions not necessarily related to … the disability and that states that are disproportionately African-American have a lower quality of hospital care. This … paper uses quality of care data from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to determine whether disability …

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Extended unemployment benefits and early retirement: Program complementarity and program substitution

Inderbitzin, Lukas; Staubli, Stefan; Zweimüller, Josef - 2013

entire early retirement system, which often includes extended UI and relaxed access to disability insurance (DI). We argue …

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Extended Unemployment Benefits and Early Retirement: Program Complementarity and Program Substitution

Inderbitzin, Lukas; Staubli, Stefan; Zweimüller, Josef - 2013

entire early retirement system, which often includes extended UI and relaxed access to disability insurance (DI). We argue …

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