Epilepsy is one of the commonest of the serious neurological disorders. The total economic burden of epilepsy in the United Kingdom has been estimated to be 1930 m pounds, with around 32 m pounds spent on antiepileptic drug therapy alone. Despite the high level of expenditure on drug therapy for epilepsy there is very little information regarding the relative cost-effectiveness of the different...

    Background: Bariatric surgery with the improvement of obesity-related diseases, increases longevity and quality of life and is more cost-effective when compared to non-surgical Procedures.   Objective: The aim of this study is to compare the cost-effectiveness of Laparoscopic Sleeve Gastrectomy (LSG) and Laparoscopic Roux-en-Y Gastric Bypass (LRYGB).   Method:...

BACKGROUND The aim of this study is to determine the most cost-effective strategy for the treatment of primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) in Brazil, from the payer's perspective (Brazilian Public Health System) in the setting of the Glaucoma Referral Centers. METHODS Study design was a cost-effectiveness analysis of different treatment strategies for POAG. We developed 3 Markov models (one fo...

BACKGROUND When prearranged standard surgical trays contain instruments that are repeatedly unused, the redundancy can result in unnecessary health care costs. Our objective was to estimate potential savings by performing an economic evaluation comparing the cost of surgical trays with redundant instruments with surgical trays with reduced instruments ("reduced trays"). METHODS We performed a...

The maturation process of the NIME field has brought a growing interest in teaching the design and implementation of Digital Music Instruments (DMIs) as well as in finding objective evaluation methods to assess the suitability of these outcomes. In this paper we propose a methodology for teaching NIME design and a set of tools meant to inform the design process. This approach has been applied i...