The most challenging issue physicians are facing is the Background: appropriate timing of introducing antiretroviral therapy (ART) along with ongoing tuberculosis (TB) therapy in HIV and TB co-infected patients. This study examined the cost-effectiveness of early versus delayed ART initiation in TB patients, infected with HIV (co-infected patients) in a sub-Saharan Africa setting. A decision an...

hpv vaccine has been recently added to the iran drug list, so decision makers need information beyond that available from rcts to recommend funding for this vaccination. modeling and economic studies have addressed some of those information needs. we reviewed cost effectiveness studies to find a suitable model for iranian population to determine the potential cost effectiveness of hpv vaccine p...

the present study was designed in quasi-experiment to assess adoption of the essential clauses of particular clinical laboratory quality management requirements based on international organization for standardization (iso 15189) in hospital laboratories and to evaluate the cost effectiveness of compliance to iso 15189.the quality management intervention based on iso 15189 was conceded through t...

OBJECTIVE To determine the cost effectiveness of intensive follow up compared with conventional follow up in patients with colorectal cancer. DESIGN Incremental cost effectiveness analysis recognising differences in follow up strategies, based on effectiveness data from a meta-analysis of five randomised trials. SETTING United Kingdom. MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Taking a health service perspec...

OBJECTIVES Health-care policymakers and payers require cost-effectiveness evidence to inform their treatment funding decisions. The aims of this study were to assess the cost-effectiveness of the addition of spinal cord stimulation (SCS) compared with conventional management alone (CMM) in patients with complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS), and to determine the cost-effectiveness of nonrecharg...

conclusions this study aims to shed light on different methods of economic evaluations in order to provoke healthcare professionals and researchers to think about different ways in which economic evaluations might be of value to their practices. results it is likely that, to date, little attention has been paid to developing a better conceptual understanding of economic evaluations in decision-...

BACKGROUND despite evidence on what works in falls prevention, falls in older people remain an important public health problem. AIMS the purpose of this study was to model the impact and cost-effectiveness of a public health falls prevention programme, from the perspective of the health funder. METHODS a decision analytic Markov model compared the health benefits in quality-adjusted life ye...