Most country-specific guidelines recommend the use of quality-adjusted life year (QALY) measure to express health gain in health economic evaluations [ 1 ]. A QALY integrates quantity of life (as life expectancy) and quality of life (expressed …
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Péter György Balázs, Agata Łaszewska, Judit Simon, Valentin Brodszky
This article used register data on day-to-day working hours of hospital employees combined with patient characteristics at work unit (wards) level to measure workload and its implications for short, self-certified sickness absences. We measured …
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Tero Kuusi, Martti Kulvik, Mikko Härmä, Annina Ropponen
Cost-effectiveness analyses (CEA) is a tool used to inform pricing, reimbursement and market access of (new) health technologies in many countries in the EU, designed to increase the value for money of healthcare spending. Systematic application …
Antimicrobial resistance comes with high morbidity and mortality burden, and ultimately high impact on healthcare and social costs. Efficient strategies are needed to limit antibiotic overuse. This paper investigates the cost-effectiveness of …
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Giulio Cisco, Armando N. Meier, Nicolas Senn, Yolanda Mueller, Andreas Kronenberg, Isabella Locatelli, José Knüsli, Loïc Lhopitallier, Noemie Boillat-Blanco, Joachim Marti
This paper investigates the effects of health-care spending on mortality rates of patients who experienced a heart attack. We relate in-hospital deaths to in-hospital spending and post-discharge deaths to post-discharge health-care spending. In …
Insufficient physical activity (PA) is a global pandemic [ 1 ] and is a leading modifiable risk factor for the development of chronic, non-communicable diseases such as coronary heart disease, stroke, type 2 diabetes mellitus, and several types of …
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Sophie Gottschalk, Hans-Helmut König, Andrea Weber, Michael F. Leitzmann, Michael J. Stein, Annette Peters, Claudia Flexeder, Lilian Krist, Stefan N. Willich, Katharina Nimptsch, Tobias Pischon, Sylvia Gastell, Karen Steindorf, Florian Herbolsheimer, Nina Ebert, Karin B. Michels, Anja Dorrn, Volker Harth, Nadia Obi, André Karch, Henning Teismann, Henry Völzke, Claudia Meinke-Franze, Leon Klimeck, Teresa L. Seum, Judith Dams
This paper investigates the role of institutional quality in explaining cross-regional variation in population health status in Italy. We first introduce a composite Regional Health Status Indicator summarizing life expectancy, mortality and …
While extensive research has explored the influence of traditional factors such as socioeconomic position on health care utilisation, the independent role of an individual’s well-being in their health care seeking behaviour remains largely …
Heart Failure (HF) is a complex clinical condition that exhibits the inability of the heart to maintain a healthy blood flow. HF causes both a shorter life expectancy and reduced quality of life. In developed countries, approximately 10% of people …
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Hamraz Mokri, Pieter van Baal, Maureen Rutten-van Mölken
Many international health technology assessment organisations, such as the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in England [ 1 ], use economic evaluation, the comparative assessment of the costs and benefits of alternative …
In Spain, there were estimated to be 34.750 new cases of breast cancer (rate of 144 cases for every 100,000 women/year) in 2022 [ 1 ]. Data from the Spanish Network of Cancer Registries show an increase in the incidence of breast cancer, with the …
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Silvia Fenix-Caballero, Adrián Sanchez-Vegas, Emilio Jesús Alegre Del-Rey, David Epstein, Leticia Garcia-Mochon, Antonio Olry de Labry Lima
5q spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a rare, progressive, neuromuscular disorder that is characterised by skeletal muscle weakness, hypotonia, respiratory deficiency, and a decline in motor function [ 1 – 3 ]. Type 1 is the most severe form of SMA …
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Thomas Sejersen, Sophie Graham, Anne-Berit Ekström, Anna-Karin Kroksmark, Marta Kwiatkowska, Michael L. Ganz, Nahila Justo, Karl Gertow, Alex Simpson
Intensive home treatment (IHT) is an alternative to admission to a psychiatric hospital for patients experiencing an acute psychiatric crisis. The development and expansion of IHT has been encouraged in several countries. In the year 2000, IHT was …
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Ansam Barakat, Jurgen E. Cornelis, Jack J. M. Dekker, Nick M. Lommerse, Aartjan T. F. Beekman, Matthijs Blankers
Standard health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL) measures used in economic evaluation are validated in the health sector but may not capture important aspects of the quality-of-life of caregivers [ 1 ]. There is a growing body of research outlining …
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Cate Bailey, Kim Dalziel, Leanne Constable, Nancy J. Devlin, Harriet Hiscock, Helen Skouteris, Tessa Peasgood
In the generalized context of general practitioner shortages and transitions towards team-based primary care, we investigated how the different practising models relate to general practitioners’ labour supply. More precisely, we analysed the …
We use 2015–2018 European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions longitudinal data for four European countries (the UK, Germany, France, and Italy) and a dynamic trivariate panel data model to analyze the complex relationship between …
Hypercholesterolemia is a major risk factor for atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease leading to reduced (healthy) life years. The aim of this study is to quantify the societal costs associated with hypercholesterolemia. We use epidemiologic data …
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Stephanie Reitzinger, Miriam Reiss, Thomas Czypionka
The COVID-19 pandemic impacted many aspects of the health system, pressuring hospital capacity and causing high excess mortality. In 2020, the Netherlands registered more than 20,000 deaths due to COVID-19 [ 1 ] and an overall excess mortality of …
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Iris Meulman, Ellen Uiters, Mariëlle Cloin, Jeroen Struijs, Johan Polder, Niek Stadhouders
Health systems face increasing pressure to scrutinise healthcare expenditures and allocate scarce resources in the most effective manner. Therefore, an increased utilisation of cost-utility analysis (CUA) is observed, since CUA allows policy …
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Micha J. Pilz, Simon Seyringer, Lára R. Hallsson, Andrew Bottomley, Femke Jansen, Madeleine T. King, Richard Norman, Marianne J. Rutten, Irma M. Verdonck-de Leeuw, Peter D. Siersema, Eva Maria Gamper
Influenza is an acute respiratory infection caused by various types of influenza A and B viruses in humans [ 1 ]. In many cases an infection with influenza will not lead to severe illness: these patients will not seek care and the infection will be …
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Simon van der Pol, Maarten J. Postma, Cornelis Boersma
