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Globally, annual spending on anticancer drugs is around US $100 billion, and is predicted
to rise to $150 billion by 2020. In the USA, a novel anticancer drug routinely costs more than …

Health economic evaluations are comparative analyses of alternative courses of action in
terms of their costs and consequences. The Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation …

Patients may be offered cardiac rehabilitation (CR), a supervised programme often including
exercises, education and psychological care, following a cardiac event, with the aim of …

Background Economic evaluations of health interventions pose a particular challenge for
reporting because substantial information must be conveyed to allow scrutiny of study …

Objective: A systematic review of cost-utility and cost-effectiveness research works of
telemedicine, electronic health (e-health), and mobile health (m-health) systems in the …

Objective Our objective was to examine perspective and costing approaches used in cost-
effectiveness analyses (CEAs) and the distribution of reported incremental cost …

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The appropriate development of a model begins with understanding the problem that is
being represented. The aim of this article is to provide a series of consensus-based best …

A COMPLETE UPDATE AND REVISION OF THE CLASSIC TEXT" At last, a manual of
operations for comparing the cost-effectiveness of a preventive service with a treatment …