BACKGROUND Sacral nerve modulation (SNM) is an established treatment for urinary and fecal incontinence in patients for whom conservative management has failed. OBJECTIVE This study assessed the outcome and cost analysis of SNM compared to alternative medical and surgical treatments. METHODS Clinical outcome and cost-effectiveness analyses were performed in parallel with a prospective, mult...

Introduction: Today, the infectious wastes of hospitals are considered as a public health problem. Considering the huge amounts of hazardous wastes and the disadvantages of incinerators, we need to investigate the non-combustible devices involved in biochemical treatment. This study was carried out with the aim of evaluating the cost-effectiveness of infectious wastes devices. Materials and Me...

BACKGROUND Whether to cover cardiovascular disease costs is an increasingly pressing question for low- and middle-income countries. We sought to identify the impact of expanding national insurance to cover primary prevention, secondary prevention, and tertiary treatment for cardiovascular disease in India. METHODS AND RESULTS We incorporated data from coverage experiments into a validated mic...

PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to conduct a cost effectiveness analysis of strategies designed to improve national cervical cancer screening rates, along with a distributional cost effectiveness analysis that considers regional disparities. MATERIALS AND METHODS Cost effectiveness analysis was conducted using a Markov cohort simulation model, with quality adjusted life years as the uni...

OBJECTIVE To determine in a Canadian health care setting the cost effectiveness of urate lowering drugs (ULD) in the treatment of nontophaceous gouty arthritis with recurrent attacks and to evaluate the least costly regimen among available ULD. METHODS A decision analysis model was designed using hypothetical cohort of patients who present 1 to 4 recurrent attacks/year. It incorporated costs ...