Background and aims: The economic burden resulting from diabetic retinopathy (DR) consumes a major portion of resources allocated for health-care services. Cost-effectiveness of various interventions on DR and its complications has relatively been well explored in developed countries, but these are almost absent in developing countries. The present study was undertaken to assess the cost-effect...

OBJECTIVES To investigate the cost-effectiveness of a telehealthcare solution in addition to usual care compared with usual care. DESIGN A 12-month cost-utility analysis conducted alongside a cluster-randomised trial. SETTING Community-based setting in the geographical area of North Denmark Region in Denmark. PARTICIPANTS 26 municipality districts define randomisation clusters with 13 dis...

conclusion the technical performance of pet scan is significantly higher than similar technologies for staging and treatment of nsclc. in addition, it might slightly improve the treatment process and lead to a small level of increase in the quality adjusted life year (qaly) gained by these patients making it cost-effective for the treatment of nsclc. results the total annual running cost of a p...

  Background: Smoking imposes considerably high economic costs both on the healthcare system as well as on a country as a whole. This study was aimed at systematically reviewing the currently published literature on the direct and indirect costs associated with smoking globally.    Methods: A systematic review was performed on systematically searched articles from PubMed ...

background: urinary tract infections (utis) are one of the most important bacterial infections among children throughout the world. the study aimed to estimate the cost of hospitalization associated with pediatric utis in kermanshah province for the years of 2013 and 2014. methods and materials: this was a cross sectional and descriptive study. the study subjects included all those aged 20 year...