We matched 24 hospitals meeting selection criteria based on volume of care, complication rates, infrastructure, medical equipment and medication resources and assigned them to the intervention (n = 12) or control group (n = 12).
Table 3 presents data on headache-related medical resources (excluding medications) used by the study participants in the past 3 months and Fig. 1 presents the annualized mean total healthcare costs per patient by migraine group and country.
The weekly pain diary consisted of 10 standardized, closed questions covering pain intensity and frequency, use of medical resources (pain medication, visits to the general practitioner, physiotherapist and other therapists), absence from work, reduced productivity at work, and reduced abilities in leisure activities.
Data on prescribed medication were taken from the trial publication and a weighted average of concomitant medications (excluding eplerenone) calculated to account for medication resource usage.
Secondary outcomes are patients' and caregivers' quality of life, mood and satisfaction with treatment; the caregiver's sense of competence, caregiver's diary (medication, resource utilisation, time of informal care); and the incidence of long-term institutionalisation. Process evaluation is performed by questionnaires and focus group discussion.
If you'd rather not look online, you can purchase a pill identifying resource book from a bookstore or check out a medication resource book from the library.
The range of topics is broadly similar in the two programs: exercise, symptom management, diet/nutrition, fatigue and pain management, medications, community resources, managing fear, anger and depression, problem solving and communication with health care providers.
The Global Fund board has responded to country needs for financing health systems responses for AIDS, TB, and malaria, mainly through enhanced supply chains for antiretroviral medications, human resources, and training [ 79].
This includes $17 billion in direct healthcare resource (medications, medical services) costs and $22.5 billion in indirect costs (productivity losses), per year [ 33].
We extracted the following data for each patient in the sample: age, sex, comorbidities, additional fractures, non-union status (yes or no), open vs. closed status of the tibia fracture, use of pain medications, healthcare resource use, and medical costs.
