Abstract Child mortality in Europe steadily declined the last decades. Children, especially kindergarten age, however, still suffer from multiple contagious diseases (CD). This is a burden for children and families causes high costs society. While studies examine epidemiology certain diseases, there no cost estimation including various CD. Thus, aim of study to estimate with common CD Germany s...

OBJECTIVE To assess the cost-effectiveness of 3 treatments (tiotropium, salmeterol, and no treatment) in patients with moderate chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). METHODS A Markov model with a time horizon of 1 year was developed. A hypothetical cohort of 100,000 subjects with moderate COPD with mean age of 65 years, smoking history of 50 pack-years, and disease duration of 9.5 yea...

BACKGROUND Cost-effectiveness models for chronic diseases frequently require simulating the development of disease complications over a long period. Model development often focuses on disease progression, with less attention devoted to costs. OBJECTIVE To identify key challenges in incorporating costs in cost-effectiveness models for chronic diseases. RESEARCH DESIGN We use our experience i...

introduction systemic lupus erythematous (sle) is among rheumatic diseases of unknown etiology. fever of unknown origin (fuo) has been rarely reported to be the presenting sign of sle. presence of four or more sle criteria is diagnostic for the disease. however, presentations may occur serially which make it much more difficult to diagnose an already questioned fuo. case presentation our case o...

objective: the aim of this study was to evaluate the prevalence ofpsychiatric disorders in patients with dermatologic disease and its relationship to the patients' quality of life. method: this study was cross-sectional. a total of 414 patients with various dermatologic diseases participated in this study. the participants were recruited from an outpatient clinic and inpatient ward of a referra...

background :the present study was conducted to establish the patterns and risk factors of surgical site infections in our institution between 2006 and 2011.   methods: this was a retrospective cross-sectional study. the surgical site infection (ssi) was identified based on the presence of icd-10-cm diagnostic code in hospital discharge records. by using a standardized data collection form predi...