Objective: We sought to evaluate the clinical, economic, and humanistic burden of illness in patients with psoriatic arthritis (PsA). Study Design: We performed a literature review. Methods: Our literature search, conducted between 1998 and 2009, included published studies that (1) considered the direct and indirect costs of PsA; reported measures of clinical burden, including mortality, physic...

OBJECTIVE To compare the direct and indirect costs of single dose systemic methotrexate with laparoscopic surgery for the treatment of unruptured ectopic pregnancy. DESIGN A cost minimisation study undertaken alongside a randomised trial. SETTING Departments of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in three hospitals in Auckland, New Zealand. PARTICIPANTS Sixty-two women with an ectopic pregnancy ra...

In a careful examination of the peer-reviewed literature, brachytherapy emerges as the most costeffective treatment for lowto intermediate-risk prostate cancer, providing superior or equivalent effectiveness at lower overall direct costs to the healthcare payer as well as lower indirect costs (e.g., productivity loss) to the patient. Brachytherapy’s lower overall direct and indirect costs are d...

BACKGROUND To analyze costs associated with dementia based on a cross-sectional study in the Brazilian health system. METHODS Direct and indirect costs were estimated by conducting comprehensive interviews on the use of resources in a sample of 156 patients with dementia treated at an outpatient memory clinic of a tertiary hospital. A regression model was used to determine the main determinan...