It is assumed that these recommendations are based upon the improved cost effectiveness reported with COX-2 inhibitors in this high-risk population, compared with nonselective NSAIDs.
This user acceptance of the model together with improved access to service and its cost effectiveness, reported in an accompanying manuscript [ 5], demonstrate potential for improved quality, safety and efficiency with the introduction of teleneurophysiology.
1 Within trial cost effectiveness reported in the Multicentre Aneurysm Screening Study (MASS), the largest randomised trial of screening for abdominal aortic aneurysm, after four years of follow-up was £28 400 per life year gained.
The efficacy of the STarT Back screening tool has been demonstrated in individual patient management in the physiotherapy setting with both greater clinical and cost effectiveness reported in the targeted subgroups compared to usual care [ 10].
Our primary objective was to determine the clinical effectiveness (measured by the hospital anxiety and depression scale) and cost effectiveness (reported in an accompanying paper 16) of eight sessions of a manual based coping strategy, delivered over 8-14 weeks by supervised psychology graduates to carers of family members with dementia, compared with usual service provision, over eight months.
An Australian government Department of Health cost-effectiveness report found that for every dollar spent on the NSP there's a 4 dollar healthcare cost saving and a saving of 27 dollars overall. Tony Mac has been an intravenous drug user for 35 years.
Our results differ from those in an unpublished cost-effectiveness report prepared for Canada's federal health minister [20] that estimated Insite prevented 1.08 deaths per year, an estimate below the range of the per annum calculation of our model.
Although it was not possible to compare the cost-effectiveness reported in all four articles, it was possible to compare cost-effectiveness of the pairs with the same denominator.
Cost effectiveness is reported in a companion paper.
Our investigation into the relative cost effectiveness is reported in an accompanying paper.
Eight cost effectiveness analyses reported in five studies compared glargine with NPH.
