CEA is becoming an increasingly important input into health policy decisions; however, the methodology does have limitations. CEA cannot incorporate all aspects of a decision, and the results are only as good as the data available to input into the analyses. Economic analyses such as CEA cannot capture every input necessary to make health care decisions and should not be reported as scientific ...

Data from patient registries can provide valuable information on patient outcomes in a real-life setting. Patient registries are organized systems that use observational study methods to collect data for specific purposes, e.g., to observe the natural history of disease, to monitor safety, to measure quality of care, and to assess the clinical and cost burden of illness [1]. Depending on the re...

Recent scholarship on regulatory oversight has focused on cost-benefit analysis of prescriptive regulations--regulations that restrict behavior such as pollution--and their use to cure market failures, and has overlooked the vast number of transfer regulations. Transfer regulations are regulations that channel funds to beneficiaries. These regulations are authorized by statutes that establish e...

Advances in eye-tracking technology have promoted its widespread use to understand and improve target searches in psychology, industrial engineering, human factors, medical diagnostics, and marketing. Eye movements are the realization of a complex, unobserved spatiotemporal attention process with many sources of variation. Eye-tracking data often have been aggregated and/or summarized descripti...

A significant body of research over the last 10-20 years supports the hypothesis that screening for hereditary hemochromatosis (HH) may be cost-effective, given the low-cost, low-risk therapeutic options available for most homozygous indMduals. The factors that confound a straightforward test of this hypothesis include the fact that the disease is not fully penetrant and that, to achieve the an...

INTRODUCTION Resource allocation is challenging in times of economic restraint and cannot be based only on clinical judgments, but must also take into account economic aspects. A method for assessing patient outcome is to estimate the quality-adjusted life years (QALYs). These will quantify the benefit gained by a certain treatment by measuring the change in health-related quality of life with ...

Deliverable Name Report on policy recording exercise, including policy typology and effectiveness and list of further policymaker targets

OBJECTIVES The delay between patient discharge and the completion of the final discharge note have prompted hospitals to consider new information technologies. This study compared the relative cost-effectiveness of an automated medical documentation system to the current system in place at a Canadian hospital. There are significant expenditures associated with the choice of medical documentatio...

Objective: The aim of this meta-analysis was to determine the effectiveness of neurofeedback treatments in adults with Attention Deficit/ Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD). Methods: A total of 9 studies were selected, and meta-analysis was done on them. The data were gathered from the following databases: PubMed, ScienceDirect, Springer, SID based on methodological conditions, topic and research d...