Thirty-six newly abstinent married male alcoholics, who had recently begun outpatient individual alcoholism counseling, were randomly assigned to a no-marital-therapy control group or to 10 weekly sessions of a behavioral marital therapy (BMT) or an interactional couples group. The cost-benefit analysis of BMT plus individual alcoholism counseling showed (a) decreases in health care and legal c...

conclusions adding low dose of ribavirin to peg ifn alfa-2a for treatment of chronic hepatitis c patients with genotype-1 was “highly cost effective” and in patients with low viral load and in previous monotherapy resistant patients was “cost effective.” results the incremental cost effectiveness ratio (icer) for combination therapy in genotype-1 and genotypes non-1 subgroups was 2,673 and 19,2...

conclusions we have demonstrated that ibgms, while not reaching statistical significance, may be associated with slightly reduced a1c and cost due to visiting physicians. results there is a trend of lowered total cost in the intervention group compared to the control group. the control group spent $210.89 per year on visits to physicians; the intervention group spent $131.26 (p = 0.128). patien...

BACKGROUND Asthma is the most common chronic disease among children in Germany. Approaches to reduce the burden of asthma include patient education to improve self-management skills. STUDY OBJECTIVES We determined whether a continuous Internet-based education program (IEP) as an add-on to a standardized patient management program (SPMP) improves health outcomes of asthma patients at a favorab...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the business case of postdischarge care transition (PDCT) among Medicare beneficiaries by conducting a cost-benefit analysis. DESIGN Randomized controlled trial. SETTING A general hospital in upstate New York State. PARTICIPANTS Elderly Medicare beneficiaries being treated from October 2008 through December 2009 were randomly selected to receive services as part o...