ÁGNES SZŐLLŐSI*, ATTILA KERESZTES, BÁLINT NOVÁK, BARNABÁS SZÁSZI, SZABOLCS KÉRI and MIHÁLY RACSMÁNY Department of Cognitive Science, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary Center for Lifespan Psychology, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin, Germany Department of General Psychology, Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest, Hungary Institute of Psych...

P245 Complementary and Integrative Medicine in nursing homes – effects on caregivers in a prospective, exploratory, comparative, two-armed cohort study Miriam Ortiz, Katharina Schnabel, Michael Teut, Gabriele Rotter, Sylvia Binting, Margit Cree, Fabian Lotz, Ralf Suhr, Benno Brinkhaus Institute for Social Medicine, Epidemiology and Health Economics, Charité University Hospital, Berlin, Germany ...

BACKGROUND After a diagnosis of diabetes mellitus, people not only have to cope with the physical aspects and common complications that require daily self-management, they are also faced with ongoing psychosocial challenges. Subsequently they find themselves having to navigate the health system to engage multidisciplinary supports; the combination of these factors often resulting in reduced hea...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Previous studies evaluating vertebral augmentation procedure costs have not made detailed comparisons between vertebroplasty and kyphoplasty. Our study contrasts hospital costs for vertebroplasty versus kyphoplasty for the treatment of vertebral compression fractures in routine clinical practice in the United States. MATERIALS AND METHODS This retrospective cohort study...

The terms compliance, adherence, concordance, and persistence are used to characterize important aspects of medication-taking behaviour. According to the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research Medication Compliance and Persistence Work Group, medication compliance (or adherence) is defined as ‘the extent to which a patient acts in accordance with the prescribed interv...

Extended traumatic wounds require extended reconstructive operations and are accompanied by long hospitalizations and risks of infection, thrombosis and flap loss. In particular, the frequently used Topical Negative Pressure (TNP) Therapy is regarded as cost-intensive. The costs of TNP in the context of traumatic wounds is analyzed using the method of health economic evaluation. All patients (n...

THE debate on economic aspects o f health care is beset with the conflict of balancing supply and de­ m and, o f offering a less adequate service to all people, or a maximal service to relatively few. Somewhere along this continuum is an area o f optimal service; providing a range o f services which the country can afford , the point at which we can best cut our coat to fit our cloth. It is ove...

The role of mathematics in economic analysis is not yet a settled question. Smith, Ricardo, Mill and other eminent classical economists did not use mathematics in their economic theorizations. We have defined classical mathematical economics as the whole body of literature in mathematical treatment of economics originating mainly from the contributions of Cournot,  Jevons and Walras. There are ...