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Cost Analysis of Radiofrequency Ablation for Adrenal Adenoma in Patients with Primary Aldosteronism and Hypertension: Results from the ADERADHTA Pilot Study and Comparison with Surgical Adrenalectomy
Primary Aldosteronism (PA) is increasingly considered as a common disease affecting up to 10% of the hypertensive population. Standard of care comprises laparoscopic total adrenalectomy but innovative treatmen...
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Open AccessCorrection to: Cost-Effectiveness Evaluation of a Remote Monitoring Programme Including Lifestyle Education Software in Type 2 Diabetes: Results of the Educ@dom Study
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Healthcare Costs Associated with Potentially Inappropriate Medication Prescribing Detected by Computer Algorithm Among Older Patients
Potentially inappropriate medication prescribing (PIP) among older patients is associated with an increased risk of adverse events and hospitalization, and sometimes increased healthcare costs.
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Open AccessEconomic impact of generic antiretrovirals in France for HIV patients’ care: a simulation between 2019 and 2023
In a context where the economic burden of HIV is increasing as HIV patients now have a close to normal lifespan, the availability of generic antiretrovirals commonly prescribed in 2017 and the imminence of pat...
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Reduction prevalence of fragility fracture hospitalisation during the COVID-19 lockdown
Fracture hospitalizations of people ≥ 65 years old living in France increased annually from 2015 until 2019 (average: 1.8%), until being reduced in 2020 (− 1.4%) with an abrupt decrease during the lockdown per...
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Open AccessCost-Effectiveness Evaluation of a Remote Monitoring Programme Including Lifestyle Education Software in Type 2 Diabetes: Results of the Educ@dom Study
Telemedicine programs using health technological innovation to remotely monitor the lifestyles of patients with type 2 diabetes (T2D) can improve glycaemic control and thus reduce the incidence of complication...
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Open AccessImpact of a Remote Monitoring Programme Including Lifestyle Education Software in Type 2 Diabetes: Results of the Educ@dom Randomised Multicentre Study
Telemonitoring in type 2 diabetes (T2D) is mainly based on glucose monitoring. A new type of connected device which routinely gathers data on weight, physical activity and food intake could improve patients’ d...
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Open AccessThe healthcare costs of antimicrobial resistance in Lebanon: a multi-centre prospective cohort study from the payer perspective
Our aim was to examine whether the length of stay, hospital charges and in-hospital mortality attributable to healthcare- and community-associated infections due to antimicrobial-resistant bacteria were higher...
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Open AccessSurveillance of antimicrobial resistance in low- and middle-income countries: a scattered picture
Data on comprehensive population-based surveillance of antimicrobial resistance is lacking. In low- and middle-income countries, the challenges are high due to weak laboratory capacity, poor health systems gov...
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Open AccessHighlighting the gaps in quantifying the economic burden of surgical site infections associated with antimicrobial-resistant bacteria
Antibiotics are the pillar of surgery from prophylaxis to treatment; any failure is potentially a leading cause for increased morbidity and mortality. Robust data on the burden of SSI especially those due to a...
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Open AccessCochlear implantation as a treatment for single-sided deafness and asymmetric hearing loss: a randomized controlled evaluation of cost-utility
Single-sided deafness (SSD) and asymmetric hearing loss (AHL) have recently been proposed as a new indication for cochlear implantation. There is still no recommended treatment for these hearing deficits, and ...
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Identification of Somatic Disorders Related to Psychoactive Drug Use from an Inpatient Database in a French University Hospital
Studies have explored hospital records to identify serious complications related to use of psychoactive drugs, but this approach is time consuming with a high rate of false positives. We propose a method to im...
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Concerns About Lung Cancer Among Prisoners
Few studies have looked at lung cancer in prisoners, despite this population is possibly at increased risk of malignancy. In a previous study, we found an early onset of lung cancer in prisoners. Thus, the pre...
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Open AccessEduc@dom: comparative study of the telemonitoring of patients with type 2 diabetes versus standard monitoring—study protocol for a randomized controlled study
The global prevalence of type 2 diabetes is considerable. To avoid or delay its chronic complications, patients with type 2 diabetes should improve blood glucose management by adapting their life style. This i...
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Cost of diabetic eye, renal and foot complications: a methodological review
Diabetic retinopathy (DR), diabetic kidney disease (DKD) and diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) represent a public health and economic concern that may be assessed with cost-of-illness (COI) studies.
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Open AccessMethodological considerations in cost of illness studies on Alzheimer disease
Cost-of-illness studies (COI) can identify and measure all the costs of a particular disease, including the direct, indirect and intangible dimensions. They are intended to provide estimates about the economic...
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Cost study of the clinical management of prostate cancer in France: results on the basis of population-based data
Prostate cancer is an important disease in terms of economic implications because of its increasing incidence and health care costs. We assessed the direct costs of the clinical management of prostate cancer i...
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The economics of cochlear implant management in France: a multicentre analysis
This study assessed the direct medical cost of cochlear implantation in children and adults in France. A prospective multicentre study involving 19 French University Hospitals included 268 children and 201 adu...
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Cost of Lung Cancer
Cost of illness (COI) studies estimate the overall economic burden of a specific disease, rather than simply treatment-related costs. While having been criticised for not allowing resource prioritisation, COI ...
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The Cost of Lung Cancer Management in France from the Payor’s Perspective
We assessed the average management cost per case of lung cancer in France according to the histological type and stage at diagnosis, together with the cost of each component of different treatment strategies.
