Medical advice-seeking behaviors based on transaction cost theoryCost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation - Tập 16 - Trang 1-6 - 2018
Shih Han Lin, Tom M. Y. Lin
Given the global trend of aging societies, medical expenditure has hit record highs in many countries. Because medical advice-seeking behaviors can affect the health of whole societies, how members of a society make medical-related decisions with limited available resources is worthy of investigation. Although transaction cost theory has been extensively applied in commercial research, it is yet t...... hiện toàn bộ
Cost-effectiveness of pharmacological and psychosocial interventions for schizophreniaCost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation - Tập 9 - Trang 1-9 - 2011
Pudtan Phanthunane, Theo Vos, Harvey Whiteford, Melanie Bertram
Information on cost-effectiveness of interventions to treat schizophrenia can assist health policy decision making, particularly given the lack of health resources in developing countries like Thailand. This study aims to determine the optimal treatment package, including drug and non-drug interventions, for schizophrenia in Thailand. A Markov model was used to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of t...... hiện toàn bộ
Modeling the Cost-effectiveness of Esophageal Cancer Screening in ChinaCost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation - Tập 18 - Trang 1-13 - 2020
Yuanyuan Li, Lingbin Du, Youqing Wang, Yuxuan Gu, Xuemei Zhen, Xiaoqian Hu, Xueshan Sun, Hengjin Dong
This study aimed to examine the cost-effectiveness of one-time standard endoscopic screening with Lugol’s iodine staining for esophageal cancer (EC) in China. A Markov decision analysis model with eleven states was built. Individuals aged 40 to 69 years were classified into six age groups in five-year intervals. Three different strategies were adopted for each cohort: (1) no screening; (2) one-tim...... hiện toàn bộ
Health economic evidence for adjuvant chemotherapy in stage II and III colon cancer: a systematic reviewCost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation - Tập 21 - Trang 1-12 - 2023
Yat Hang To, Peter Gibbs, Jeanne Tie, Maarten IJzerman, Koen Degeling
The aims of this study was to appraise the health economic evidence for adjuvant chemotherapy (AC) strategies in stage II and III colon cancer (CC) and identify gaps in the available evidence that might inform further research. A systematic review of published economic evaluations was undertaken. Four databases were searched and full-text publications in English were screened for inclusion. A narr...... hiện toàn bộ
A population-based model for priority setting across the care continuum and across modalitiesCost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation - Tập 4 - Trang 1-9 - 2006
Leonie Segal, Duncan Mortimer
The Health-sector Wide (HsW) priority setting model is designed to shift the focus of priority setting away from 'program budgets' – that are typically defined by modality or disease-stage – and towards well-defined target populations with a particular disease/health problem. The key features of the HsW model are i) a disease/health problem framework, ii) a sequential approach to covering the enti...... hiện toàn bộ
Factors affecting the technical efficiency of rural primary health care centers in Hamadan, Iran: data envelopment analysis and Tobit regressionCost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation - Tập 18 - Trang 1-8 - 2020
Saeed Mohammadpour, Javad Javan-Noughabi, Ali Vafaee Najar, Moharram Zangeneh, Shaghayegh Yousefi, Mojtaba Nouhi, Reza Jahangiri
Studying and monitoring the efficiency of primary health care centers has a special place in the health system. Although studies have been conducted in the field of efficiency in Iran, few have focused on rural primary health care centers. In addition, previous studies have not used the child mortality rate and Behvarzes as input and output. The present study was conducted aimed to estimate the te...... hiện toàn bộ
Cost of illness of hyponatremia in the United StatesCost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation - Tập 4 - Trang 1-11 - 2006
Audra Boscoe, Clark Paramore, Joseph G Verbalis
Hyponatremia is a disorder of fluid and electrolyte balance characterized by a relative excess of body water relative to body sodium content. It is the most common electrolyte disorder encountered in clinical medicine and is associated with negative outcomes in many chronic diseases. However, there is limited information in the literature about health care resource use and costs attributable to th...... hiện toàn bộ