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Smoking is an expensive habit. Smoking households spend, on average, more than $US1000 annually on cigarettes. When a …
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Tucson, Arizona, USA, between 1996 and 2001. Aim: The project's goal was to reduce the prevalence of youth smoking through … of the number of people who quit or did not initiate smoking and by the discounted life-years gained. To establish the … implementing the 1996 US Clinical Practice Guideline for smoking cessation but exceed the real cost of $US2923 per discounted life …
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Background: Tobacco smoking is one of the leading public health problems in the world. It is also possible to prevent … cigarette packs; mass media campaigns; and smoking bans (in public or in work places). A multi-state life table model was … by excise tax increases, mass media campaigns, public smoking bans and work place smoking bans. If the cost offset was …
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Background: Missing data are potentially an extensive problem in cost-effectiveness analyses conducted alongside randomised clinical trials, where prospective collection of both resource use and health outcome information is required. There are several possible reasons for the presence of...
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Background: The correct valuation of health state scenarios is important for economic analyses, disease burden assessment and setting clinical guidelines. However, it is unclear whether we should use individual or group valuations. We aimed to compare individual and group valuations of a range...
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Objective: Several EU countries are determining reimbursement prices of pharmaceuticals by cross-referencing prices of foreign countries. Our objective is to quantify the theoretical cross-border spill-over effects of cross-reference pricing schemes on pharmaceutical prices in the former EU-15...
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Bone densitometry is currently widely recommended for, and considered central to, identifying post-menopausal women and older men at high risk of fracture and establishing an indication for pharmacological fracture-prevention therapy. The purpose of this article is to comprehensively review...
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Prospective observational studies, which provide information on the effectiveness of interventions in natural settings, may complement results from randomised clinical trials in the evaluation of health technologies. However, observational studies are subject to a number of potential...
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