The statistical approach in trial-based economic evaluations matters: get your statistics together!

Trial-Based Economic Evaluations in Occupational Health

To allocate available resources as efficiently as possible, decision makers need information on the relative economic merits of occupational health and safety (OHS) interventions. Economic evaluations can provide this information by comparing the costs and consequences of alternatives. Nevertheless, only a few of the studies that consider the effectiveness of OHS interventions take the extra st...

[Health economic evaluations: bringing together academia and policy].

Primes Get Together

Mathematics has long been an important tool in infectious disease epidemiology. I will provide a brief overview of compartmental models, the dominant framework for modeling disease transmission, and then contact network epidemiology, a more powerful approach that applies bond percolation on random graphs to model the spread of infectious disease through heterogeneous populations. I will derive ...

Statistical considerations in economic evaluations: a guide for cardiologists.

The author reviews statistical methods commonly applied in economic evaluations that rely on individual patient-level data. The paper includes a review of foundational concepts, unique characteristics of health economic data, and methods developed to address them. The paper then highlights issues that should be considered in the interpretation of findings from economic evaluations.

Get your ACTivities together: New CMS regulations in long-term care.

Article: Revised surveyor guidelines for acactivities requirements in long-term care facilities became effective in June 2006. These guidelines have important programmatic, clinical, staff, and cost implications for gerontological nurses, administrators, and other facility staff. The investigative protocol used by surveyors is designed to determine whether a facility has provided a sufficient o...