AIMS To investigate the cost-effectiveness of English specialist smoking cessation services. DESIGN Combination of observational cost and outcome data from English smoking cessation services to calculate cost-effectiveness ratios. Multivariate analysis of factors influencing variation in services' cost-effectiveness. SETTING Fifty-eight of the 92 specialist smoking cessation services in Eng...

BACKGROUND The severity of asthma varies between individuals and over time. As a result individuals may have marked variation in their need for asthma treatment. Adjustable dosing enables patients to assume greater involvement in managing their own condition. OBJECTIVE To compare the costs and effectiveness of fixed dosing of budesonide/formoterol (Symbicort Turbohaler) with adjustable mainte...

This paper focuses on the theory of uncovered interest rate parity and whether interest-rate differentials have resulted in the higher interest rate currency depreciating over time. Previous literature has empirically rejected the theory indicating that higher interest rate currencies have actually appreciated relative to lower interest rate currencies. In this paper, uncovered interest rate pa...

We modelled the epidemiology and cost of pneumococcal disease in children in the UK and the cost-effectiveness of immunisation with 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV). We estimated the incidence of pneumococcal meningitis, pneumococcal septicaemia, all-cause pneumonia and all-cause otitis media (OM). We further estimated the impact of vaccination with associated costs and outcomes. V...

OBJECTIVE To undertake an economic evaluation of nurse telephone consultation using decision support software in comparison with usual general practice care provided by a general practice cooperative. DESIGN Cost analysis from an NHS perspective using stochastic data from a randomised controlled trial. SETTING General practice cooperative with 55 general practitioners serving 97 000 registe...

OBJECTIVE To produce models to estimate the impact of introducing clinical networks and the 2001 BAPM standards to the delivery of neonatal care. DESIGN Prospective observational study using a geographically defined population and data collected by questionnaire on staffing levels and cot availability. SETTING Trent Health Region UK. SUBJECTS All infants born to Trent resident mothers at ...