Objectives: to compare the cost effectiveness of post-acute care for older people provided in
community hospitals with general hospital care. Design: cost-effectiveness study embedded …

This commentary discusses how health economic techniques can usefully be applied to
inform clinical and policy decision making in the aged care sector from two perspectives …

The greatest drawback of PROMs in their current form is their inherently subjective and
discrete nature. Questionnaires relying on patients' recollection of their general state of …

The use of preference-based generic instruments to measure the health-related quality of
life of a general population or of individuals suffering from a specific disease has been …

Background Previous studies have demonstrated that medication adherence has an impact
on health-related quality of life (HRQoL). However, other medication-related factors that may …

Background The concept of quality of life relates to the perceptions of individuals about their
mental and physical health as well as non-health related areas. The evaluation of quality of …

Background Australia's ageing population means that there is increasing emphasis on
developing innovative models of health care delivery for older adults. The assessment of the …

Objective: To undertake a cost-utility analysis of the Individual Nutrition Therapy and
Exercise Regime: A Controlled Trial of Injured, Vulnerable Elderly (INTERACTIVE) trial …

Objective. To assess the longitudinal validity of widely used preference-weighted
measurement systems for economic studies of intervertebral disk herniation (IDH). Methods …

Purpose Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a progressive and debilitating chronic lung
disease with a high symptom burden, which has a substantial impact on health-related …