Published in Clinical rehabilitation
To estimate the cost-consequence of treating spasticity early with botulinum toxin in the acute stroke unit. Secondary cost-consequence analysis, using data from a double-blind randomised-controlled trial. Single-centre specialised stroke unit. Patients with Action Research Arm Test grasp-score of
BACKGROUND: The importance of accurately costing implementation strategies is increasingly recognised within the field of implementation science. However, there is a lack of methodological guidance for costing implementation, particularly within digital health settings. This study reports on a systematic review of costing analyses conducted alongsi...
Published in Frontiers in Psychiatry
Background The extraordinarily high prevalence of treatment-resistant depression (TRD), coupled with its high economic burden to both healthcare systems and society, underscore how critical it is that resources are managed optimally to address the significant challenge it presents. Objective To review the literature on economic evaluation in TRD sy...
Published in Health policy and planning
Common mental disorders (CMDs) constitute a major public health and economic burden on low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Systematic reviews of economic evaluations of psychological treatments for CMDs are limited. This systematic review examines methods, reports findings and appraises the quality of economic evaluations of psychological tre...
Published in Evaluation review
In this article, we explore the reasons why multiarm trials have been conducted and the design and analysis issues they involve. We point to three fundamental reasons for such designs: (1) Multiarm designs allow the estimation of "response surfaces"-that is, the variation in response to an intervention across a range of one or more continuous polic...
Funder: Rosetrees Trust / Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) has unparalleled ability to distinguish between bacteria, with many public health applications. The generation and analysis of WGS data require significant financial investment. We describe a systematic review summarizing economic analyses of genomic surveillance of bacterial pathogens, review...
Published in BJU international
To assess the cost-effectiveness, resource use implications, quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) and cost per QALY of care pathways starting with either extracorporeal shockwave lithotripsy (SWL) or with ureteroscopic retrieval (ureteroscopy [URS]) for the management of ureteric stones. Data on quality of life and resource use for 613 patients, col...
Published in Frontiers in Public Health
Background The term “well-becoming” is not new, but is not routinely used in our everyday language or in research in public health economics. It has been applied in early years research. Well-becoming can be thought of as our multitude of life-journeys toward meaning and purposefulness. Objective To develop a new infographic in the spirit of the Da...
Published in Frontiers in Psychiatry
To provide full potential benefits to patients, behavioral health interventions often require comprehensive and systematic implementation efforts. The costs of these efforts should therefore be included when organizations decide to fund or adopt a new intervention. However, existing guidelines for conducting economic analyses like cost-effectivenes...
Published in Frontiers in Aging Neuroscience
Introduction Economic evaluation currently focuses almost exclusively on the maximization of health, using the Quality-Adjusted Life-Year (QALY) framework with instruments such as the EQ-5D, with a limited number of health-focused dimensions providing the assessment of health benefit. This evaluative framework is likely to be insufficient for setti...
