Arto Ohinmaa

..57 (for receiving educational sessions). The costing model provides information for decision-makers about the cost of videoconferencing activities and can be used in the development of a sustainable telehealth system in Alberta...

..Comprehensive school health (CSH) is increasingly receiving renewed interest as a strategy to improve health and learning. The present study estimates the costs associated with implementing and maintaining CSH...

..The use of TMH was particularly common in remote areas; however, there were many rural centres that did not utilize clinical TMH. TMH was widely utilized for continuing and medical education...

..If telemedicine programmes from other countries are disseminated to the USA, differences in health-care systems, and technological infrastructure will probably affect their chances of success...

..The study showed that orthopaedic outpatient telecare can be cost minimizing...

..This approach is also incrementally cost-effective in this large injection-driven HIV epidemic...

..This longitudinal study assessed the changes in drug use patterns and health-related quality of life (HRQL) among HIV-positive drug users in the first methadone maintenance treatment (MMT) cohort in Vietnam...

..Our study aims to estimate the depression care costs of patients with a depression diagnosis, ranking them by the increasing total depression health care costs...

..In this study, we present an estimate of the investment in Alberta, by public organization, for chronic disease prevention activities which provide information that promotes behaviour changes in adults at risk...

..eTRIAGE is a Web-based triage decision support tool that is based on the Canadian Triage and Acuity Scale (CTAS), a five level triage system (CTAS 1 = resuscitation, CTAS 5 = nonurgent)...

..The results indicated that MMT was cost-effective in HIV prevention and treatment among DUs who were opioid dependent...

..Telepsychiatry appears to still be a niche technology in many health systems. A lack of champions for the technology and reimbursement problems may contribute to the limited use of this area of telemedicine...

..To review the evidence of benefit from use of telemental health (TMH) in studies that reported clinical or administrative outcomes...

..This study assessed changes in opioid use, and longitudinal predictors of continued opioid use during MMT among HIV-positive drug users in Vietnam, with the aim of identifying changes that might enhance program efficacy...

..The objective of the current study was to investigate the sensitivity and specificity of an ICD code-based diagnosis of obesity from administrative health data relative to the gold standard measured BMI...

..This study determined the prevalence of AUD and identified correlates of alcohol consumption and drinking problems during ART in large injection-driven HIV epidemics in Vietnam...

..Findings of this study indicate that providing MMT for HIV-positive drug users is a cost-effective intervention in Vietnam. Integrating MMT to HIV/AIDS care and treatment services would be beneficial in injection-driven HIV epidemics...

..Determining how migraineurs manage their condition from the viewpoint of health resource utilization (including both medical and personal resources) may provide insights that could lead to more effective care strategies...

..We sought to identify chronic pain patients' preferences for levels of improvement in pain-related morbidity (PRM) by measuring their willingness to pay (WTP) for reducing their pain intensity and pain-related disability...

..To assess the out-of-pocket (OOP) payments for health-care services of HIV/AIDS patients, and identify associated factors in Vietnam...

..Findings of this study highlight the need to develop comprehensive interventions for HIV/AIDS patients, including HIV/AIDS treatment support and gender-specific impact mitigation interventions strategies...

..The Canadian League against Epilepsy's telemedicine task force conducted this study to understand the perceptions, barriers and usage of telemedicine in epilepsy care...

..As a consequence, overweight and obese children may use health care services more often than their normal weight peers. The aim of the current study was to assess health service use and costs across categories of weight status...

..Although further useful clinical and economic outcomes data have been obtained for some telemedicine applications, good-quality studies are still scarce...

..To measure total public and private expenditures on mental health in each province...

..Cost analysis and patient satisfaction with telemedicine in epilepsy care...

..Success in establishing the feasibility of telecardiology applications is offset by a failure to obtain convincing data on their influence on health outcomes and on their cost-effectiveness...

..To review diagnostic accuracy of positron emission tomography/computed tomography (PET/CT) for colorectal liver metastases...

..This study reviewed costs of obesity and intervention programs in Canada, assessed the scope and quality of existing cost analyses, and identified implications for economic evaluations and public health decision makers...

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..As a result of these factors, the decision process and the study outcomes can differ between countries, but because the vaccine adoption process includes other criteria as well, economic factors will not necessarily alter the outcome...

..Our results indicate that, when analysed within the picture of the entire person, liver-related costs (which have been the focus of most studies to date) are the tip of the iceberg...

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..Part of the answer to the lack of standardisation may lie in pharmacoeconomic guidelines themselves...

..The incremental cost-effectiveness ratio was Canadian $461 per additional correct diagnosis (less costly and more effective). EIA + IL is cost-effective when compared with RPR + TPPA/FTA for screening and diagnosis of syphilis...

..Although useful clinical and economic outcomes data have been obtained for some telemedicine applications, good-quality studies are still scarce and the generalizability of most assessment findings is rather limited...

..We included any government ministry or public organization, which includes health as a stated objective...

..To assess how diet quality, physical activity and body weight are related to health-related quality of life (HRQOL) among children in the Canadian province of Alberta...

..05). The findings highlight the need to improve the health service referral system and enhance psychological and social supports for patients in early stages of HIV infection in Vietnam...

..Using the standard methods, it found good agreement between two independent users of a computerized triage tool. The level of agreement was not affected by various measures of ED crowding...

..A retrospective, population-based analysis...