Respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the leading cause of bronchiolitis in infants. Palivizumab is an immunoprophylactic agent for RSV prevention in preterm infants and those with neonatal chronic lung disease. This study examines its use across neonatal units in Ireland. A questionnaire was administered to one Consultant Neonatologist or Paediatrician in each of the 20 maternity centres in Ire...

BACKGROUND/OBJECTIVES Parenteral nutrition (PN) incorporating omega-3 fatty-acid-enriched lipid emulsions has been shown to be cost effective in Western populations. A pharmacoeconomic evaluation was performed within the Chinese intensive care unit (ICU) setting. This assessed whether the additional acquisition cost of PN with omega-3 fatty-acid-enriched lipid emulsion (SMOFlipid) vs standard P...

Introduction: Multiplicity of anesthetic services and practice consume few resources individually, but collectively, they mean signifi cant cost. Economic and pharmacoeconomic studies are done in order to rationalize resources. Aim: 1. To calculate the direct expense in anesthesia and reanimation; 2. To compare expenses to the price of anesthesia according to the unit prices of National Health ...

Objectives: To know the family income of diabetic patients and the places where they acquire/purchase the syringes, and to analyze the cost of treating the disease at home and the consequences of such costs. Methods: Descriptive, analytical, cross-section study, which interviewed 199 patients cared for at a large pediatric school hospital in São Paulo in 2004. Results: The predominant family in...

From the Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, and Harvard Medical School, Boston (A.B.J.); RAND, Santa Monica, CA (S.S.); Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economics and School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (D.L.); and the Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (A.C.). Address reprint requests to D...

Zhuo-Ming Ren, 2 Manuel Sebastian Mariani, 4, 2, ∗ Yi-Cheng Zhang, and Matúš Medo 5, 2, † College of Economics and Management, Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou 310014, PR China Department of Physics, University of Fribourg, 1700 Fribourg, Switzerland Institute of Fundamental and Frontier Sciences, University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, Chengdu 610054, PR China URPP...

1 Department of Endocrinology & Diabetes, Birmingham Children’s Hospital; and Institute of Metabolism and Systems Research, University of Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom 2 Department of Health Economics, Institute of Applied Health Research, University of Birmingham, United Kingdom 3 Vitamin D Research Group, School of Food and Nutritional Sciences, University College Cork, Ireland 4 Pro...

near Canterbury, Mr. Buchanan, who lost both parents when he was only seven years old, was educated at Christ's Hospital, where he became a Grecian, as members of the top form are called. Few schools have been more identified with men of letters, and it was therefore fitting that Mr. Buchanan should, after matriculation, have won a scholarship at London University for Classics and English Liter...