Jalali, Faride Sadat Bikineh, Parisa Delavari, Sajad
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Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
BackgroundDirect out-of-pocket payments (OOP) are among the most important financing mechanisms in many health systems, especially in developing countries, adversely affecting equality and leading vulnerable groups to poverty. Therefore, this scoping review study was conducted to identify the strategies involving OOP reduction in health systems.Met...
Ye, Ziping Liu, Fuyao Ma, Jia Zhou, Ziyang Wang, Chen Sun, Lihua
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BackgroundThe payment card (PC) format and the open-ended (OE) format are common methods in eliciting willingness-to-pay (WTP) of one additional quality-adjusted life year (QALY). The aim of this research is to compare these two formats in eliciting the monetary value of a QALY.MethodsA contingent valuation survey was carried out using a pre-design...
Wu, Dongdong Li, Juan Wang, Yubo Huang, Hao Huang, Chunji
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ObjectiveThe choice between neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) and adjuvant chemotherapy (AC) remains controversial in the treatment of non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). There is no significant difference in NAC and AC’s effectiveness. We investigate the cost-effectiveness of NAC versus AC for NSCLC.MethodA decision tree model was designed from a pay...
García-Mochón, Leticia Rovira Forns, Joan Espin, Jaime
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Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
This article presents part of the work within Work Package 3 (WP3) of Impact HTA (Improved methods and actionable tools for enhancing HTA), a H2020 EU-funded research project, intended to enhance and promote collaboration in HTA across EU MS. Amongst other objectives, and in close collaboration with WP4, WP3 addressed setting up a multi-country uni...
Kaló, Zoltán Petykó, Zsuzsanna Ida Fricke, Frank-Ulrich Maniadakis, Nikos Tesař, Tomáš Podrazilová, Kateřina Espin, Jaime Inotai, András
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Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
BackgroundA core evaluation framework that captures the health care and societal benefits of value added medicines (VAMs, also often called repurposed medicines) was proposed in Report 1, aiming to reduce the heterogeneity in value assessment processes across countries and to create incentives for manufacturers to invest into incremental innovation...
Chen, Liran Chen, Zhimin Chen, Huafang
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ObjectiveThe changes of absolute value and relative value of clinical research coordinator service fee and its influence on the quality of drug clinical trial were analyzed.MethodsThis study compared the amount and structural changes of drug clinical trial costs in before 3 years and after 3 years of self-examination and inspection initiated by the...
Alcaraz, Andrea Rojas-Roque, Carlos Prina, Daniela González, Juan Martín Pichon-Riviere, Andrés Augustovski, Federico Palacios, Alfredo
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Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
BackgroundThe CardioMEMS® sensor is a wireless pulmonary artery pressure device used for monitoring symptomatic heart failure (HF). The use of CardioMEMS was associated with a reduction of hospitalizations of HF patients, but the acquisition cost could be high in low-and-middle income countries. Evidence of cost-effectiveness is needed to help deci...
Hollingworth, Samantha Fenny, Ama Pokuaa Yu, Su-Yeon Ruiz, Francis Chalkidou, Kalipso
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Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
BackgroundCountries in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) are moving towards universal health coverage. The process of Health Technology Assessment (HTA) can support decisions relating to benefit package design and service coverage. HTA involves institutional cooperation with agreed methods and procedural standards. We systematically reviewed the literature ...
Jafari, Faranak Salari, Nader Hosseinian-Far, Amin Abdi, Alireza Ezatizadeh, Niaz
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Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
BackgroundPositive Organizational Behavior (POB) as an application of positive psychology provides the opportunity to nurses to deliver an effective and high-quality service. This study aims to predict positive organizational behavior based on structural and psychological empowerment among Nurses.MethodIn this descriptive-analytical study, the sele...
Millar, Robyn Morton, Alec Bufali, Maria Vittoria Engels, Sven Dabak, Saudamini Vishwanath Isaranuwatchai, Wanrudee Chalkidou, Kalipso Teerawattananon, Yot
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BackgroundHealth technology assessment (HTA) agencies have an important role to play in managing the rising demands on health systems. However, creating and running such agencies potentially diverts resources from frontline services. A large number of studies address the question of ‘what is the impact of HTA?’. Several points of heterogeneity in t...
