Economic Evaluation in Stroke Research

Economic evaluation in stroke research : a systematic review.

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The purpose of this review is to provide insight into the quality of economic evaluation in the field of cerebrovascular diseases (CVD) on the basis of a systematic analysis. METHODS A literature search was performed using several sources. Trial-based full economic evaluation studies, were included in this review. The quality of the studies was independently assessed by...

Economic evaluation: a useful research method.

Evaluation of hemorrhagic infarction in stroke patients

Background: Hemorrhagic Transformation of Infarct (HTI) is an important finding which has been reported mainly in cardio embolic strokes . Although clinical status of the patients is not often deteriorated , however decision making for anticoagulation is difficult in HTI patients. The goal of this survey was to determine the prevalence and the cause of HTI in patients in the Vali Asr hospi...

Training care givers of stroke patients: economic evaluation.

BACKGROUND Training care givers reduces their burden and improves psychosocial outcomes in care givers and patients at one year. However, the cost effectiveness of this approach has not been investigated. OBJECTIVE To evaluate the cost effectiveness of caregiver training by examining health and social care costs, informal care costs, and quality adjusted life years in care givers. DESIGN A ...

Economic Evaluation of Agricultural Research in Australia and New Zealand

State governments and the Commonwealth are pursuing policies to focus research and development (R&D) resources on high priority areas and to improve the effectiveness of R&D delivery. An important aspect of improving the allocation of research resources is the establishment of an efficient system for evaluating the impact of completed research (ex-post studies) and assessing the likely returns ...