| Autor: | John Kyriopoulos, Vassilis A. Paparizos, Chrysoula A. Botsi, Kyriakos K. Kyriakis, Mary Geitona, Nick G. Stavrianeas |
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| Rok vydání: | 2001 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Pediatrics Venereology Combination therapy business.industry Medicine (miscellaneous) Health Informatics Cost-effectiveness analysis Disease medicine.disease Health informatics Pharmacotherapy Health Information Management Acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) medicine Intensive care medicine business health care economics and organizations Information Systems Hiv disease |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Medical Systems. 25:73-80 |
| ISSN: | 0148-5598 |
| DOI: | 10.1023/a:1005640500643 |
| Popis: | The paper attempts to evaluate the clinical and economic benefits between the administration of the dual and triple antiretroic schemes for the treatment of the HIV disease. Clinical and economic data are derived from patients hospitalized in 1996 and 1997 at the University Department of Dermatology and Venereology of Andreas Sygros Hospital. Methodology is based on the comparison of patients' nosological profile and direct annual cost before and after the administration of the triple treatment. The results of the study present that the triple combination therapy yields superior health outcomes, (decrease in the days of hospitalization and in the opportunistic disease events as well as fewer deaths and loss of production). Cost comparison presents a small decrease in the annual patient's cost, where all cost components are diminished, except the medication cost. A substitution of hospital care by drug therapy is revealed and a great change is taken place in the composition of the drugs' cost. Patient cost for antiretroic drugs has more than doubled from 1996 to 1997. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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