Economic evaluation alongside the Speed of Increasing milk Feeds Trial (SIFT)

The Speed of Increasing milk Feeds: a randomised controlled trial

BACKGROUND In the UK, 1-2% of infants are born very preterm (<32 weeks of gestation) or have very low birth weight (<1500 g). Very preterm infants are initially unable to be fed nutritional volumes of milk and therefore require intravenous nutrition. Milk feeding strategies influence several long and short term health outcomes including growth, survival, infection (associated with intravenous n...

Economic Evaluation of Dairy Feeds

Feed costs typically represent more than 50% of total costs of producing milk on a dairy farm. Feed cost savings, even a few dollars per ton, add up to significant savings over a year on a large dairy. For many dairies, a ration-balancing software program that uses linear programming techniques can be used to determine the opportunity cost or price of including a new feed in a ration. However, ...

Protocol for economic evaluation alongside the IMPLEMENT cluster randomised controlled trial

BACKGROUND The recent development and publication of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines (CPGs) for acute low back pain (LBP) has resulted in evidence-based recommendations that, if implemented, have the potential to improve the quality and safety of care for acute LBP. While a strategy has been specified for dissemination of the CPG for acute LBP in Australia, there is no accompanying ...

Cost-effectiveness of total hip arthroplasty versus resurfacing arthroplasty: economic evaluation alongside a clinical trial

OBJECTIVE To report on the relative cost-effectiveness of total hip arthroplasty and resurfacing arthroplasty (replacement of articular surface of femoral head only) in patients with severe arthritis suitable for hip joint resurfacing arthroplasty. DESIGN Cost-effectiveness analysis on an intention-to-treat basis of a single-centre, single-blind randomised controlled trial of 126 adult patien...

Health-economic evaluation alongside a pragmatic randomised controlled trial of a web-based intervention