Comparison of three instruments assessing the quality of economic evaluations: a practical exercise on economic evaluations of the surgical treatment of obesity

S Gerkens, R Crott, I Cleemput, JP Thissen… - International journal of …, 2008 - cambridge.org
Objectives: The increasing use of full economic evaluations has led to the development of
various instruments to assess their quality. The purpose of this study was to compare the …

Gastric bypass is a cost-saving procedure: results from a comprehensive Markov model

GR Faria, JR Preto, J Costa-Maia - Obesity surgery, 2013 - Springer
Background Obesity is a growing public health problem in industrialized countries and is
directly and indirectly responsible for almost 10% of all health expenditures. Bariatric …

[PDF][PDF] HTA-Beric

A Bockelbrink, Y Stöber, S Roll, C Vauth, SN Willich… - 2008 - portal.dimdi.de
Medizinische und ökonomische Beurteilung der bariatrischen Chirurgie (Adipositaschirurgie)
gegenüber konservativen Strategien Page 1 medizinwissen HTA-Beric h t 73 Medizinische und …

Budget impact analysis of surgical treatment for obesity in Sweden

S Borg, I Näslund, U Persson… - … Journal of Surgery, 2012 - journals.sagepub.com
Background: The recent substantial increase in the number of obese surgeries performed in
Sweden has raised concerns about the budget impact. Objective: Our aim in this paper is to …

Pre–Lap-Band group education in Medicaid population: does it really make a difference?

JA Talarico, A Torquati, EM McCarthy… - Surgery for Obesity and …, 2010 - Elsevier
BACKGROUND: The effect of group education classes before a Lap-Band procedure has
not been well defined. We hypothesized that in a Medicaid population, the completion of a …

[PDF][PDF] Internal hernia following laparoscopic gastric bypass

AR Ahmed - 2014 - core.ac.uk
Obesity is increasingly recognised as a major health threat in the developed world, with
more than 120 million people worldwide classified as clinically obese. Increased weight …