BACKGROUND To update a cost-effectiveness analysis of rotavirus vaccination in the Netherlands previously published in 2011. METHODS The rotavirus burden of disease and the indirect protection of older children and young adults (herd protection) were updated. RESULTS When updated data was used, routine infant rotavirus vaccination in the Netherlands would potentially become an even more cos...

Printed materials have been a primary mode of communication in public health education. Three major approaches to the development of these materials--the application of characteristics identified in the literature, behavioral strategies and marketing strategies--have major implications for both the effectiveness and cost of materials. However, little attention has been directed towards the cost...

Health economic decision models are subject to various forms of uncertainty, including uncertainty about the parameters of the model and about the model structure. These uncertainties can be handled within a Bayesian framework, which also allows evidence from previous studies to be combined with the data. As an example, we consider a Markov model for assessing the cost-effectiveness of implanta...

This paper is the first to conduct cost-effectiveness analyses of bariatric surgery comparing obese patients with obesity-related diseases to obese people without comorbidities across different BMI categories, using the meta-analysis results of surgery outcomes for our effectiveness inputs. We find that surgery treatment is in general cost-effective for people whose BMI is greater than 35 kg/m(...

OBJECTIVES To explore how the cost effectiveness of a behaviour-change prevention programme for sexually transmitted infection (STI) varies with the phase of an STI epidemic. METHODS A model of STI transmission and standard methods of cost-effectiveness analysis was used to examine the cost effectiveness of a hypothetical, behaviour-change intervention initiated at various phases of an STI ep...

of ischemic stroke moderate and severe degrees of severity using a drug cerebrolysin compared with standard therapy, cost-effectiveness ratios (CER) were obtained 419656 RUB (6920 EUR) and 563183 RUB (9287 EUR), respectively. ConClusions: The standard therapy in combination with drug cerebrolysin has a lower CER compared with standard therapy, therefore, it is a dominant technology from the per...

BACKGROUND We performed an analysis of the cost-effectiveness of pandemic intervention strategies using a detailed, individual-based simulation model of a community in Australia together with health outcome data of infected individuals gathered during 2009-2010. The aim was to examine the cost-effectiveness of a range of interventions to determine the most cost-effective strategies suitable for...

OBJECTIVES The delay between patient discharge and the completion of the final discharge note have prompted hospitals to consider new information technologies. This study compared the relative cost-effectiveness of an automated medical documentation system to the current system in place at a Canadian hospital. There are significant expenditures associated with the choice of medical documentatio...