News tagged with cost effectiveness


Global recommendations on child medicine

Transparent information on the evidence supporting global recommendations on paediatric medicines should be easily accessible in order to help policy makers decides on what drugs to include in their national drug lists, according ...

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Can computer-based decision support control health care costs?

William M. Tierney, M.D. focuses on the potential of electronic medical systems and computer-based decision support to control healthcare costs in "Controlling costs with computer-based decision support: ...

Health created Apr 16, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Telehealth unlikely to be cost effective for patients with long term conditions

Telehealth does not seem to be a cost effective addition to standard support and treatment for patients with long term conditions, finds a study published in the BMJ today.

Health created Mar 21, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study finds catheter-based varicose vein treatments more cost-effective

Treating varicose veins with vein-stripping surgery is associated with higher costs than closing the veins with heat, according to a study at Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit.

Cardiology created Mar 13, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Introducing 'more patient reality' into NHS spending decisions

A study by health economists at the University of York has, for the first time, produced an estimate of the impact on other NHS patients of new and more costly drugs and other treatments.

Health created Jan 24, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Telestroke cost effective for hospitals

Researchers have found that using telemedicine to deliver stroke care, also known as telestroke, appears to be cost-effective for rural hospitals that do not have an around-the-clock neurologist, or stroke expert, on staff. ...

Cardiology created Dec 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Managing erectile dysfunction, comorbid diseases linked

(HealthDay)—Diagnosis and management of erectile dysfunction (ED) improves health outcomes for men with comorbid diseases, and vice versa, according to research published online Nov. 15 in The Journal of ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Dec 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Treating childhood cancer in developing countries less expensive than believed

(Medical Xpress)—The assumption that childhood cancer in developing countries is prohibitively expensive to treat is challenged by new research contributed to by the University of Sydney.

Cancer created Dec 03, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Non-emergency angioplasty costs higher in hospitals without back-up surgery

Angioplasty costs were higher in hospitals not equipped with emergency back-up heart surgery, compared to those hospitals that are, according to late-breaking clinical trial research presented at the American Heart Association's ...

Cardiology created Nov 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cell saver not cost-effective in single-level lumbar surgery

(HealthDay)—Use of intraoperative blood salvage (cell saver) is not cost-effective for adult patients undergoing single-level posterior lumbar decompression and fusion (PLDF) surgery, according to research ...

Surgery created Oct 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Effectiveness of HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis in Peru

In this week's PLOS Medicine, Anna Borquez from Imperial College London and an international group of authors developed a mathematical model representing the HIV epidemic among men who have sex with men (MSM) and transwomen in Lim ...

HIV & AIDS created Oct 09, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Helicopter heroes save lives

The benefits and cost effectiveness of helicopter transport for severely injured patients is of continued debate. New research published in BioMed Central's open access journal Critical Care shows that for severe blunt trauma ...

Other created Sep 27, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

PCI guided by fractional flow reserve versus medical therapy alone in stable coronary disease

Patients with stable coronary artery disease (CAD) had a lower need for urgent revascularisation when receiving fractional flow reserve (FFR)-guided PCI plus the best available medical therapy (MT) than when receiving MT ...

Cardiology created Aug 28, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Repeat aneurysm screening for high-risk men should be considered

Aneurysm screening for men aged over 65 is cost effective and rescreening those at highest risk, at least once, should be considered, suggests a study published in the British Medical Journal today.

Cardiology created Jul 05, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Giving preventive drug to men at high risk for HIV would be cost-effective, study shows

A once-a-day pill to help prevent HIV infection could significantly reduce the spread of AIDS, but only makes economic sense if used in select, high-risk groups, Stanford University researchers conclude in a new study.

HIV & AIDS created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast