Showing papers in "Value in Health in 2011"

TL;DR: Although the checklist should not be interpreted as endorsing any specific methodological approach to conjoint analysis, it can facilitate future training activities and discussions of good research practices for the application of conjoint-analysis methods in health care studies.

TL;DR: This report from the ISPOR Indirect Treatment Comparisons Good Research Practices Task Force provides guidance on the interpretation of indirect treatment comparisons and network meta-analysis to assist policymakers and health-care professionals in using its findings for decision making.

TL;DR: This task force report is intended to offer suggestions for good practice in planning, executing, and documenting qualitative studies that are used to support the content validity of PRO instruments to be used in medical product evaluation.

TL;DR: Suggestions for good practices in planning, executing, and documenting qualitative studies that are used to support the content validity of PRO instruments to be used in medical product evaluation are offered.

TL;DR: This report from the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research Indirect Treatment Comparisons Good Research Practices Task Force provides guidance on technical aspects of conducting network meta-analyses (the authors' use of this term includes most methods that involve meta-analysis in the context of a network of evidence).

TL;DR: Given the inherently problematic nature of comparing questionnaires of various lengths, it is preferable to base decisions on use of instruments on the content rather than the length per se.

TL;DR: NSHEs are associated with substantial economic consequences for employers and patients and greater attention to treatments that reduce NSHEs could have a major, positive impact on lost work productivity and overall diabetes management.

TL;DR: The Australia-specific EQ-5D values generated were similar to those produced for a range of other countries, but the number of directly valued states allowed inclusion of more interaction effects, which increased the divergence between Australia's algorithm and other algorithms in the literature.

TL;DR: In this article, a preference-based single index for cancer from the EORTC QLQ-C30 for use in economic evaluation is proposed, based on factor analysis, Rasch analysis and other psychometric analyses.

TL;DR: Costs increased along with duration of disease, level of care and presence of chronic complications, which suggested a need to reallocate health resources focusing on primary prevention of diabetes and its complications.

TL;DR: There are problems with the validity of self-rated data because of a lack of association between patient and proxy ratings, and the impact of dementia on carer's quality of life should be included in economic evaluation.

TL;DR: Questions are raised about the use of generic measures of health like the EQ-5D and SF-36 in patients with schizophrenia, including problems with the measures used to develop constructs in the validation studies.

TL;DR: Values for EQ-5D health states were estimated from the Thai general population, the first Thai generic health state value results to be used in evaluating health interventions in Thailand.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)-Medicare data from 1991-2003 for 60,231 patients with lung cancer to estimate monthly and patient-liability costs for clinical phases of lung cancer.

TL;DR: HSUVs from the general population would not be an appropriate baseline for cohorts who have just one condition, and data from respondents who report they do not have any prevalent health condition may be more appropriate.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used a multistate model that accounts for the time of infection to estimate the extra length of stay due to infection, and compared the two methods' performance using a simulation study using a large prospective cohort of hospital admissions from Argentina.

TL;DR: The costs of potentially preventable hospital admissions related to medication are considerable and patient safety interventions to prevent ADEs and hospital admissions may be cost-effective or even cost saving.

TL;DR: Poor medication adherence is associated with a significantly increased risk of fracture versus optimal adherence, and improving medication adherence in patients with osteoporosis may lead to a greater reduction in fracture.

TL;DR: It is confirmed that significant productivity loss arises from MDD and that this loss can be reduced with psychiatric intervention after a time period as short as 8 weeks.

TL;DR: Due to valued informal care, costs of care for community-living patients with moderate dementia are significantly higher than for patients with mild dementia.

TL;DR: Variation was found in the methods used to select and incorporate utility values in economic models for NICE Technology Appraisals, highlighting variation in the selection, elicitation, valuation, and use of the utility values.

TL;DR: A mapping algorithm can be used to predict EQ-5D utility scores from the SGRQ and may be useful in some situations; however, for use in a health technology assessment (HTA) submission in which precision of estimation is important, it is in the interests of both the manufacturer and the HTA body that utility scores be directly derived from the clinical trial population.

TL;DR: To assess how diagnosis-related group-based (DRG-based) hospital payment systems in 12 European countries participating in the EuroDRG project pay and incorporate technological innovation, a standardized questionnaire was used to guide comprehensive DRG system descriptions.

TL;DR: The main objective was to identify economic burden from epidemiological changes and expected demand for health care services for diabetes in Mexico and three probabilistic models were constructed according to the Box-Jenkins technique.

TL;DR: Vastly different results emerge from the application of the HCA and the FCA, and this finding emphasizes the importance of choosing the study perspective carefully and being explicit about assumptions that underpin the methods.

TL;DR: The study compared the preferences of patients and health-care professionals for the key attributes of a pharmacogenetic testing service to identify a patient's risk of developing a side effect from the immunosuppressant, azathioprine.

TL;DR: There are serious limitations in the methods available to model progression of AD over time and recent evidence supports the need for a multivariable approach to the modelling of AD progression, and indicates that a latent variable analytic approach to characterising AD progression is a promising avenue for advances in the statistical development of modelling methods.

TL;DR: This methodological systematic review describes the extent to which EQ-5D has been used in the evaluation of children's health care, assesses psychometric properties, and makes recommendations for future good practice.

TL;DR: The results suggest that patients initiating and adhering to chronic preventive drug therapies are more likely to engage in other health-promoting behaviors, and may introduce bias in any epidemiologic study evaluating the effect of a preventive therapy on clinical outcomes.

TL;DR: Prescribing ticagrelor universally increases quality-adjusted life years for ACS patients at a cost below a typically accepted threshold.