Issue 1/2019
Content (40 Articles)
Analysis of processes and costs of alternative packaging options of sterile goods in hospitals – a case study in two German hospitals
Markus Krohn, Josefine Fengler, Thomas Mickley, Steffen Flessa
Correction to: CancerCostMod: a model of the healthcare expenditure, patient resource use, and patient co-payment costs for Australian cancer patients
Nicole Bates, Emily Callander, Daniel Lindsay, Kerrianne Watt
Health condition and job status interactions: econometric evidence of causality from a French longitudinal survey
Eric Delattre, Richard K. Moussa, Mareva Sabatier
Cost-effectiveness analysis of case management for optimized antithrombotic treatment in German general practices compared to usual care – results from the PICANT trial
Lisa R. Ulrich, Juliana J. Petersen, Karola Mergenthal, Andrea Berghold, Gudrun Pregartner, Rolf Holle, Andrea Siebenhofer
Adherence to long-term prophylactic treatment: microeconomic analysis of patients’ behavior and the impact of financial incentives
Klaus Mann, Michael Möcker, Joachim Grosser
A comparative profitability analysis of transcatheter versus surgical aortic valve replacement in a high-volume French hospital
François Huchet, Jacques Chan-Peng, Fanny d’Acremont, Patrice Guerin, Gael Grimandi, Jean-Christian Roussel, Julien Plessis, Vincent Letocart, Thomas Senage, Thibaut Manigold
Neighborhood characteristics as determinants of healthcare utilization – a theoretical model
Sigrid M. Mohnen, Sven Schneider, Mariël Droomers
Diabetic and cardiovascular patients’ willingness to pay for upcoming national health insurance scheme in Côte d’Ivoire
Agbaya Stéphane Serge Oga, Akissi Régine Attia-konan, Fulgence Vehi, Jérôme Kouame, Kouamé Koffi
Out-of-pocket healthcare expenditure in Australia: trends, inequalities and the impact on household living standards in a high-income country with a universal health care system
Emily J. Callander, Haylee Fox, Daniel Lindsay
Out-of-pocket payments in the context of a free maternal health care policy in Burkina Faso: a national cross-sectional survey
Ivlabèhiré Bertrand Meda, Adama Baguiya, Valéry Ridde, Henri Gautier Ouédraogo, Alexandre Dumont, Seni Kouanda
Cost-effectiveness analysis of OM-85 vs placebo in the prevention of acute respiratory tract infections (ARTIs) in children that attend day-care centers
Arturo Berber, Blanca Estela Del-Rio-Navarro
Economic evaluation of cardiac magnetic resonance with fast-SENC in the diagnosis and management of early heart failure
John E. Schneider, Ivana Stojanovic
Willingness to pay for osteoporosis risk assessment in primary dental care
Helena Christell, Joanna Gullberg, Kenneth Nilsson, Sofia Heidari Olofsson, Christina Lindh, Thomas Davidson
Cost-utility analysis of total knee arthroplasty for osteoarthritis in a regional medical center in China
Qi Gui, Xinghuo Zhang, Liang Liu, Feng Zhao, Wenhao Cheng, Yakui Zhang
Health economic evaluation of a web-based intervention for depression: the EVIDENT-trial, a randomized controlled study
Viola Gräfe, Thomas Berger, Martin Hautzinger, Fritz Hohagen, Wolfgang Lutz, Björn Meyer, Steffen Moritz, Matthias Rose, Johanna Schröder, Christina Späth, Jan Philipp Klein, Wolfgang Greiner
Aligning public financial management system and free healthcare policies: lessons from a free maternal and child healthcare programme in Nigeria
Daniel Chukwuemeka Ogbuabor, Obinna Emmanuel Onwujekwe
Long term COST-minimization analysis of robot-assisted hysterectomy versus conventional laparoscopic hysterectomy
María A. Martínez-Maestre, Lidia M. Melero-Cortés, Pluvio J. Coronado, Carmen González-Cejudo, Nuria García-Agua, Antonio J. García-Ruíz, Francisco Jódar-Sánchez
Health Uninsurance in rural America: a partial equilibrium analysis
William Nganje, Kwame Asiam Addey
National burden of the pharmaceutical cost of wet compresses and its cost predictors: nationwide cross-sectional study in Japan
Hiroaki Itoh, Tomoyuki Saito, Shuko Nojiri, Yoshimune Hiratsuka, Kazuhito Yokoyama
The medium, the message and the measure: a theory-driven review on the value of telehealth as a patient-facing digital health innovation
Seye Abimbola, Sarah Keelan, Michael Everett, Kim Casburn, Michelle Mitchell, Katherine Burchfield, Alexandra Martiniuk
The cost-effectiveness of albumin in the treatment of decompensated cirrhosis in Germany, Italy, and Spain
M. Chris Runken, Paolo Caraceni, Javier Fernandez, Alexander Zipprich, Rashad Carlton, Martin Bunke
Sociodemographic determinants of health insurance enrolment and dropout in urban district of Ghana: a cross-sectional study
Eric Nsiah-Boateng, Justice Nonvignon, Genevieve Cecelia Aryeetey, Paola Salari, Fabrizio Tediosi, Patricia Akweongo, Moses Aikins
Cost effectiveness of optimal treatment of ADHD in Israel: a suggestion for national policy
Asher Ornoy, Avia Spivak
Implementation of risk-sharing contracts as perceived by Spanish hospital pharmacists
Reyes Lorente, Fernando Antonanzas, Roberto Rodriguez-Ibeas
Are health risk attitude and general risk attitude associated with healthcare utilization, costs and working ability? Results from the German KORA FF4 cohort study
Johanna I. Lutter, Boglárka Szentes, Margarethe E. Wacker, Joachim Winter, Sebastian Wichert, Annette Peters, Rolf Holle, Reiner Leidl
Technical efficiency of neonatal health services in primary health care facilities of Southwest Ethiopia: a two-stage data envelopment analysis
Kiddus Yitbarek, Gelila Abraham, Ayinengida Adamu, Gebeyehu Tsega, Melkamu Berhane, Sarah Hurlburt, Carlyn Mann, Mirkuzie Woldie
Pre-approval incentives to promote adoption of personalized medicine: a theoretical approach
F. Antoñanzas, C. A. Juárez-Castelló, R. Rodríguez-Ibeas
Costing for universal health coverage: insight into essential economic data from three provinces in Cambodia
Bart Jacobs, Kelvin Hui, Veasnakiry Lo, Michael Thiede, Bernd Appelt, Steffen Flessa
Attribute development and level selection for a discrete choice experiment to elicit the preferences of health care providers for capitation payment mechanism in Kenya
Melvin Obadha, Edwine Barasa, Jacob Kazungu, Gilbert Abotisem Abiiro, Jane Chuma
Quality of life in chronic conditions using patient-reported measures and biomarkers: a DEA analysis in type 1 diabetes
Sixten Borg, Ulf-G. Gerdtham, Katarina Eeg-Olofsson, Bo Palaszewski, Soffia Gudbjörnsdottir
Health shock and preference instability: assessing health-state dependency of willingness-to-pay for corrective eyeglasses
Muhammed Nazmul Islam, Atonu Rabbani, Malabika Sarker
Effect of pecuniary costs and time costs on choice of healthcare providers among caregivers of febrile children in rural Papua New Guinea
Takahiro Tsukahara, Takuma Sugahara, Seiritsu Ogura, Francis Wanak Hombhanje
Patient-reported data informing early benefit assessment of rare diseases in Germany: A systematic review
Ana Babac, Kathrin Damm, J.-Matthias Graf von der Schulenburg
Different interpretation of additional evidence for HTA by the commissioned HTA body and the commissioning decision maker in Germany: whenever IQWiG and Federal Joint Committee disagree
C. M. Dintsios, F. Worm, J. Ruof, M. Herpers
Risk selection into supplemental private health insurance in China
Yawen Jiang, Weiyi Ni
Economic burden of vertigo: a systematic review
Eva Kovacs, Xiaoting Wang, Eva Grill
Buying efficiency: optimal hospital payment in the presence of double upcoding
Simon B. Spika, Peter Zweifel
Health insurance coverage, type of payment for health insurance, and reasons for not being insured under the National Health Insurance Scheme in Ghana
Martin Amogre Ayanore, Milena Pavlova, Nuworza Kugbey, Adam Fusheini, John Tetteh, Augustine Adoliba Ayanore, James Akazili, Philip Baba Adongo, Wim Groot
The cost-effectiveness of pegaspargase versus native asparaginase for first-line treatment of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia: a UK-based cost-utility analysis
Xingdi Hu, Kingsley P. Wildman, Subham Basu, Peggy L. Lin, Clare Rowntree, Vaskar Saha