The objective of this review is to synthesize the evidence from economic evaluations of the cost effectiveness of exercise delivered by health professionals to elderly individuals living in the community for preventing falls. Economic evaluations will be defined for the purpose of the review as studies that use the cost benefit, cost effectiveness or cost utility measurement method to quantify ...

Objective To assess the association between different types of organisation and the results from economic evaluations. Design Retrospective pairwise comparison of evidence submitted to the technology appraisal programme of the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) by manufacturers of the relevant healthcare technologies and by contracted university based assessment groups. Data sour...

The occurrence of food safety incidents such as “Sanlu Milk Powder” make the public have doubts about the effectiveness of food quality safety market admittance system. Therefore, studying and evaluating the effectiveness of food quality safety market admittance system has become a problem to solve urgently. The article combines the theory of management science with the practice of food quality...

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In recent years, cost-effectiveness data have strongly influenced clinical practice guidelines for several cardiovascular treatments. Economic considerations are increasingly common as health systems are under mounting pressure to maximise value for money. The quality-adjusted life year (QALY)-an outcome measure that expresses the duration and quality of life-is the main pillar of cost-effectiv...

BACKGROUND Community-based efforts to promote physical activity (PA) in adults have been found to be cost-effective in general, but it is unknown if this is true in middle-age specifically. Age group-specific economic evaluations could help inform the design and delivery of better and more tailored PA promotion. METHODS A Markov model was developed to estimate the cost-effectiveness (CE) of 7...