INTRODUCTION Cigarette smoking causes many chronic diseases that are costly and result in frequent hospitalisation. Hospital-initiated smoking cessation interventions increase the likelihood that patients will become smoke-free. We modelled the cost-effectiveness of the Ottawa Model for Smoking Cessation (OMSC), an intervention that includes in-hospital counselling, pharmacotherapy and posthosp...


 One systematic review, 4 primary studies (observational studies: 3 retrospective and 1 prospective), economic evaluation were identified.
 A definitive conclusion is not possible regarding the clinical effectiveness of anesthesia provided by non-physician anesthetists compared with physician anesthetists, considering evidence was from low quality that associated considerable risk bi...

OBJECT Despite advances in technology and understanding in spinal physiology, reoperation for symptomatic adjacent-segment disease (ASD), same-level recurrent stenosis, and pseudarthrosis in elderly patients continues to occur. While revision lumbar surgery is effective, attention has turned to questions on the utility and value of the revision decompression and fusion procedure. To date, an an...

BACKGROUND Parkinson's disease (PD) is a debilitating illness associated with considerable impairment of quality of life and substantial costs to health care systems. Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is an established surgical treatment option for some patients with advanced PD. The EARLYSTIM trial has recently demonstrated its clinical benefit also in patients with early motor complications. We so...

BACKGROUND This paper examines the Willingness to Pay (WTP) for a quality-adjusted life year (QALY) expressed by people who attended the healthcare system as well as the association of attitude towards risk and other personal characteristics with their response. METHODS Health-state preferences, measured by EuroQol (EQ-5D-3L), were combined with WTP for recovering a perfect health state. WTP ...

Following some years of practical application, weaknesses have been identified in the original 2018 version ‘social footprint’ methodology, where wellbeing was seen as exclusively related to consumption activities and inseparably linked production through budget constraint, implying that value limited be a mirror production. Several improvements both methodology data are presented here. The the...

Background Expanding statin use may help to alleviate the excess burden of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease in people living with HIV (PLHIV). Pravastatin and pitavastatin are preferred agents due their lack substantial interaction antiretroviral therapy. We aimed evaluate cost-effectiveness pravastatin for primary prevention among PLHIV United States. Methods developed a microsimulation ...

BACKGROUND The prevention of depression is a key public health policy priority. PredictD is the first risk algorithm for the prediction of the onset of major depression. Our aim in this study was to model the cost-effectiveness of PredictD in depression prevention in general practice (GP). METHOD A decision analytical model was developed to determine the cost-effectiveness of two approaches, ...

Introduction This initial cost-effectiveness evaluation compared the provision of transtibial bone-anchored prostheses (TTA-BAPs) with socket-suspended (TTA-SSPs) over a 6-year time horizon from governmental prosthetic care perspective. The purposes were to present ways we dealt barriers encountered during analysis. objectives detail extraction baseline and incremental costs utilities required ...

OBJECTIVE To estimate the cost effectiveness of combination treatment with etanercept plus methotrexate in comparison with monotherapies in patients with active rheumatoid arthritis (RA) using a new model that incorporates both functional status and disease activity. METHODS Effectiveness data were based on a 2 year trial in 682 patients with active RA (TEMPO). Data on resource consumption an...