of budesonide. In children, fluticasone propionate was more cost effective per treatment success compared with inhaled …

Background: Health-related quality of life (HR-QOL) is an important outcome in the treatment of chronic childhood … diseases such as asthma. However, this measure is rarely used in young children in Asia because of the difficulty of obtaining … validate a disease-specific HR-QOL questionnaire (Childhood Asthma Questionnaire [CAQ]-B) for asthmatic children aged 7 …

decades. The family stress related to the care of children with moderate or severe atopic dermatitis is significantly greater … than that of the care of children with type 1 diabetes mellitus. The factors contributing to family stress include sleep …

Background: Vaccinating children against influenza virus may reduce infections in immunised children and household … influenza virus vaccination of daycare children on costs of respiratory illnesses of the children and their household contacts … covering the period November to April of 1996-7 and 1998-9. Children (127 in 1996-7 and 133 in 1998-9) from daycare centres in …

Valuing the health of children for cost-utility or cost-benefit analysis poses a number of additional challenges when … compared with valuing adult health. Some of these challenges relate to the inability of young children to value changes in … health directly and the potential biases associated with using proxy respondents. Other challenges arise from children not …

Following a licence extension to include those aged 6-11 years, the National Institute for Health and Clinical …) and the Centre for Health Economics (CHE) at the University of York were commissioned as the Evidence Review Group (ERG … children with ≥3 exacerbations as baseline. The ERG identified a number of issues relating to the clinical effectiveness …

-QOL instruments should also be applied to the utility scales such that they reflect adequately children's preferences for health …Although numerous paediatric-based health-related quality-of-life (HR-QOL) instruments are currently in use, there … overall QOL should be defined and measured in children. It is recommended that future studies focus on operationalising and …

Differences between children and adults have both technical and ethical implications for the design, interpretation and … employment of economic analyses of health-related programmes. Even though policy makers increasingly turn to economic analyses to … and effectiveness of healthcare interventions; challenges in assessing utilities for infants and young children given …

available on the overall occurrence of influenza in children, less information is available on the differential impact of … influenza on healthcare for previously healthy children and those at high risk of developing influenza-related complications …. Objective: To compare the frequency of influenza-related complications in healthy and `at-risk' children, and quantify the …

The health-related quality of life (HR-QOL) of children and adolescents is increasingly considered a relevant topic for … research. Instruments to assess quality of life in children and adolescents of a generic as well as disease- or condition …-specific nature are being developed and applied in epidemiological surveys, clinical studies, quality assurance and health economics …