Michael T Halpern

..Separating the effects on stage of cancer at diagnosis associated with these two types of patient characteristics can be difficult...

..The objective of this study was to project the health and economic impacts of providing a workplace smoking cessation benefit...

..These estimates may be useful for understanding the burden of cancer care and development of programs for cancer survivors...

..The authors examined the associations of insurance status with stage at diagnosis among women with breast cancer...

..Little is known about the costs of cystoid macular edema (CME), an important complication associated with cataract surgery. The purpose of this analysis was to estimate the cost of treatment for CME in the United States...

..To assess the patient-reported use of caregiving among individuals with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and evaluate the impact of visual impairment level on this use...

..Further research is needed to integrate the information on various components of AMD-related costs into a comprehensive burden of illness estimate and to evaluate basic utility assumptions in existing models...

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..The burden of inadequately controlled pediatric asthma on education and other daily activities is not well described...

..However, little is known about the cost of treatment. The objective of this study was to estimate the direct medical cost of treatment for endophthalmitis in the United States...

..We assessed demographic, clinical, and facility-related factors associated with SLNB in women with early-stage breast cancer and evaluated trends in these factors over time...

..Employers often experience additional savings from decreased absenteeism and increased productivity, with combined savings in health care plus workplace costs associated with varenicline use of $165 to $457 per smoker over two years...

..3% MBC), immunotherapy was associated with $285, $73, and $12 million cost increase for NHL, MCRC, and MBC, respectively. Costs for these cancers would have exceeded $1.82 billion had 50% of eligible patients received immunotherapy...

..Results indicate that clarithromycin extended-release is cost-saving compared with immediate-release for LRTI...

..To assess the patient-reported use of services, supplements, and devices among individuals with age-related macular degeneration (AMD) and evaluate the impact of visual impairment level on this use...

..In addition, visual functioning is known to affect medical costs. The objective of this study was to project visual field deficit progression and subsequent costs based on clinical trial data...

..Obesity is an important driver of costs in the workplace. These findings quantify the costs and can help employers consider whether to introduce workplace interventions or provide coverage for weight loss programs...

..In this study, the authors examined whether patients who had no insurance or who were covered by Medicaid insurance were more likely to present with advanced oropharyngeal cancer...

..The impact of long-term inhaled corticosteroid (ICS) therapy on bone mineral density (BMD) is poorly understood...

..While this relationship is clearer in terms of work loss, further exploration is needed to assess decreased productivity and to evaluate this relationship using objective indicators of absenteeism and productivity rather than recall...

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..Costs among patients with wet disease increased yearly at rates exceeding inflation, possibly due in part to increased rates of treatment with photodynamic therapy among these individuals and the aging of the population...

..Further studies are needed to define the role of structural, health system, physician, clinical and patient factors in treatment delay among Black and Hispanic women and appropriate interventions...

..Physicians should assess asthma patients for symptoms of allergic rhinitis to improve asthma treatment...

..As new screening technologies for early detection of individuals at elevated risk of glaucoma are now in use, more complete estimates of the cost of glaucoma are critical for issues of resource allocation and health policy...

..Despite model limitations, omega-3 supplementation should be considered an important and cost-effective option for prevention of secondary cardiovascular events...

..Health-related quality of life (HRQL) is impaired in patients with COPD, but little is known about the direct effect of exacerbations on HRQL...

..Medical resource use associated with AECB can have a substantial economic impact on the patients, health care system, and society overall...

..This meta-analysis systematically evaluated resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Streptococcus pyogenes to macrolide antibiotics among patients with community-acquired respiratory tract infections...

..Lessons learned from usability testing in the unique setting of the clinical trial can be applied to other projects to decrease costs, enhance the quality of the data, and minimize time to analysis...

..This study evaluated the psychometric properties of the DLTV using patient-reported rates of use of services and devices in an outpatient population...

..To evaluate current treatment patterns for coronary artery revascularization in Canada and explore the potential impact of drug eluting stents (DES) on these treatment patterns...

..To compare the effects of inhaled corticosteroid treatment with leukotriene modifier treatment on medical resource use and costs for asthma patients...

..22). CONCLUSIONS: The HWQ may be useful for evaluating the impact of interventions on workplace productivity. Additional validation research on the HWQ is recommended before use as a primary measure in studies of worker productivity...

..We also highlight limitations of these economic evaluations and discuss why members of the cancer community should care about economic analyses...