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    Value in Health: Volume 12, Issue 1

    vi, 1-187
    January/February 2009
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ISPOR Code of Ethics

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ISPOR CODE OF ETHICS: MARCH 2008

  • Page: vi
  • First Published: 23 January 2009

ECONOMIC EVALUATION

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Long-Term Cost-Effectiveness of Pioglitazone versus Placebo in Addition to Existing Diabetes Treatment: A US Analysis Based on PROactive

William J. Valentine PhD,  Daniel Tucker MD,  Andrew J. Palmer MD,  Michael E. Minshall MPH,  Volker Foos MSc,  Cheryl Silberman PhD, MPH, 
  • Pages: 1-9
  • First Published: 23 January 2009
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Cost-Effectiveness of Treatments Reducing Coronary Heart Disease Mortality in Ireland, 2000 to 2010

Kathleen Bennett PhD,  Zubair Kabir MD, PhD,  Michael Barry MD,  Lesley Tilson PhD,  Dogan Fidan PhD,  Emer Shelley MD,  Simon Capewell MD, 
  • Pages: 10-15
  • First Published: 23 January 2009
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Prevention and Management of Hyperphosphatemia with Sevelamer in Canada: Health and Economic Consequences

Krista F. Huybrechts MS,  J. Jaime Caro MDCM,  Judith A. O'Brien RN, 
  • Pages: 16-19
  • First Published: 23 January 2009
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The Potential Clinical and Economic Outcomes of Pharmacogenomic Approaches to EGFR-Tyrosine Kinase Inhibitor Therapy in Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer

Josh J. Carlson PhD,  Louis P. Garrison PhD,  Scott D. Ramsey MD, PhD,  David L. Veenstra PharmD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 20-27
  • First Published: 23 January 2009
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Budgetary Impact of Varenicline in Smoking Cessation in the United Kingdom

Douglas C. A. Taylor MBA,  Paula Chu BA,  Virginia M. Rosen PhD,  Christine L. Baker MPH,  David Thompson PhD, 
  • Pages: 28-33
  • First Published: 23 January 2009
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The Impact of Proton Pump Inhibitor Compliance on Health-Care Resource Utilization and Costs in Patients with Gastroesophageal Reflux Disease

Antoine Gosselin MA,  Roger Luo PhD,  Herve Lohoues PhD,  Edmond Toy PhD,  Barbara Lewis PhD,  Joseph Crawley MS,  Mei Sheng Duh MPH, ScD, 
  • Pages: 34-39
  • First Published: 23 January 2009
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Potential for Cost-Savings in the Care of Hospitalized Low-Risk Community-Acquired Pneumonia Patients in China

Qing-tao Zhou MD,  Bei He BSMed,  Hong Zhu BSMed, 
  • Pages: 40-46
  • First Published: 23 January 2009
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The Effects of Laparoscopic Surgery and Nosocomial Infections on the Cost of Care: Evidence from Three Common Surgical Procedures

Candace Gunnarsson EdD,  John A. Rizzo PhD,  Louis Hochheiser MD, 
  • Pages: 47-54
  • First Published: 23 January 2009
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The Burden of Migraine in the United States: Current and Emerging Perspectives on Disease Management and Economic Analysis

Elisabeth Hazard PhD,  Julie Munakata MS,  Marcelo E. Bigal MD, PhD,  Marcia F. T. Rupnow PhD,  Richard B. Lipton MD, 
  • Pages: 55-64
  • First Published: 23 January 2009
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The Health Value and Cost of Care for Major Depression

Katherine E. Watkins MD, MSHS,  M. Audrey Burnam PhD,  Maria Orlando PhD,  José J. Escarce MD, PhD,  Haiden A. Huskamp PhD,  Howard H. Goldman MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 65-72
  • First Published: 23 January 2009
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Gaining Efficiencies: Resources and Demand for Dialysis around the Globe

Nancy Neil PhD,  David R. Walker PhD,  Ricardo Sesso MD,  Juan Carlos Blackburn MD, MBA, MPH,  Elizabeth A. Tschosik PhD,  Vito Sciaraffia MD,  Fernando García-Contreras MD,  Dimitrie Capsa PhD,  Samir K. Bhattacharyya PhD, 
  • Pages: 73-79
  • First Published: 23 January 2009
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An Empiric Estimate of the Value of Life: Updating the Renal Dialysis Cost-Effectiveness Standard

Chris P. Lee PhD,  Glenn M. Chertow MD, MPH,  Stefanos A. Zenios PhD, 
  • Pages: 80-87
  • First Published: 23 January 2009
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Health State Valuation Methods and Reference Points: The Case of Tinnitus

Michael Happich PhD,  Jörn Moock MSc,  Thomas Von Lengerke PhD, 
  • Pages: 88-95
  • First Published: 23 January 2009

Short Notes

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Deterministic Sensitivity Analysis for First-Order Monte Carlo Simulations: A Technical Note

Benjamin P. Geisler MD,  Uwe Siebert MD, MPH, MSc, ScD,  G. Scott Gazelle MD, MPH, PhD,  David J. Cohen MD, MSc,  Alexander Göhler MD, MSc, PhD, MPH, 
  • Pages: 96-97
  • First Published: 23 January 2009
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Ultrasound-Guided Central Line Placement as Compared with Standard Landmark Technique: Some Unpleasant Arithmetic for the Economics of Medical Innovation

Stephen Kinsella PhD,  Nicholas Young MD, 
  • Pages: 98-100
  • First Published: 23 January 2009

OUTCOMES ASSESSMENT

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Evaluation of an Internet-Based Disease Trajectory Decision Tool for Prostate Cancer Screening

Vibha Bhatnagar MD, MPH,  Dominick L. Frosch PhD,  Steven R. Tally PhD,  Charles J. Hamori MD,  Leslie Lenert MD, MS,  Robert M. Kaplan PhD, 
  • Pages: 101-108
  • First Published: 23 January 2009
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Satisfaction and Adherence in Patients with Iron Overload Receiving Iron Chelation Therapy as Assessed by a Newly Developed Patient Instrument

Diana Rofail MSc,  Linda Abetz MA,  Muriel Viala MSc,  Claire Gait MPhil,  Jean-Francois Baladi MBA,  Krista Payne MEd, 
  • Pages: 109-117
  • First Published: 23 January 2009
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Development and Evaluation of the Adherence to Refills and Medications Scale (ARMS) among Low-Literacy Patients with Chronic Disease

Sunil Kripalani MD, MSc,  Jessica Risser MD, MPH,  Margaret E. Gatti MPH,  Terry A. Jacobson MD, 
  • Pages: 118-123
  • First Published: 23 January 2009
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Estimating Clinically Meaningful Changes for the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy—Prostate: Results from a Clinical Trial of Patients with Metastatic Hormone-Refractory Prostate Cancer

David Cella PhD,  Michael B. Nichol PhD,  David Eton PhD,  Joel B. Nelson MD,  Parvez Mulani MA, CPhil, 
  • Pages: 124-129
  • First Published: 23 January 2009
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Development of a New Questionnaire to Assess Patient Perceptions of Cancer-Related Fatigue: Item Generation and Item Reduction

Eva Baró BSc,  Joan Carulla MD,  Javier Cassinello MD,  Ramón Colomer MD,  Jesús García Mata MD,  Pere Gascón MD,  José Antonio Gasquet PhD,  Michael Herdman MSc,  César A. Rodríguez MD,  Jordi Sánchez BSc,  Vicente Valentín MD, 
  • Pages: 130-138
  • First Published: 23 January 2009
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The Development of the Herpes Symptom Checklist and the Herpes Outbreak Impact Questionnaire

Lynda C. Doward MRes,  Stephen P. McKenna PhD,  David M. Meads MSc,  Kristijan Kahler RPh, SM,  Feride Frech MPH, 
  • Pages: 139-145
  • First Published: 23 January 2009
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Using Conjoint Analysis to Estimate Healthy-Year Equivalents for Acute Conditions: An Application to Vasomotor Symptoms

F. Reed Johnson PhD,  A. Brett Hauber PhD,  Semra Özdemir MS, 
  • Pages: 146-152
  • First Published: 23 January 2009
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Reliability of the Discrete Choice Experiment at the Input and Output Level in Patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

Ulla Slothuus Skjoldborg PhD,  Jørgen Lauridsen PhD,  Peter Junker MD, 
  • Pages: 153-158
  • First Published: 23 January 2009
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Estimating a Preference-Based Single Index from the Overactive Bladder Questionnaire

Yaling Yang MSc,  John Brazier PhD,  Aki Tsuchiya PhD,  Karin Coyne PhD, 
  • Pages: 159-166
  • First Published: 23 January 2009
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Mapping the EORTC QLQ C-30 onto the EQ-5D Instrument: The Potential to Estimate QALYs without Generic Preference Data

Lynda McKenzie MSc,  Marjon Van Der Pol PhD, 
  • Pages: 167-171
  • First Published: 23 January 2009
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Breaking the Silence: Exploring the Potential Effects of Explicit Instructions on Incorporating Income and Leisure in TTO Exercises

Marieke Krol MSc,  Pedram Sendi MD, DSc,  Werner Brouwer PhD, 
  • Pages: 172-180
  • First Published: 23 January 2009

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Validation of Gastrointestinal Quality of Life Index in Swedish for Assessing the Impact of Gallstones on Health-Related Quality of Life

Gabriel Sandblom MD, PhD,  Per Videhult MD,  Britt-Marie Karlson MD, PhD,  Staffan Wollert MD, PhD,  Mikael Ljungdahl MD, PhD,  Bahman Darkahi MD,  Haakan Liljeholm MD,  Ib Christian Rasmussen MD, PhD, 
  • Pages: 181-184
  • First Published: 23 January 2009
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Utility Estimates for Decision–Analytic Modeling in Chronic Heart Failure—Health States Based on New York Heart Association Classes and Number of Rehospitalizations

Alexander Göhler MD, MSc, MPH,  Benjamin P. Geisler MD,  Jennifer M. Manne MSc,  Mikhail Kosiborod MD,  Zefeng Zhang MD, PhD,  William S. Weintraub MD,  John A. Spertus MD, MPH, FACC,  G. Scott Gazelle MD, MPH, PhD,  Uwe Siebert MD, MPH, MSc, ScD,  David J. Cohen MD, MSc, 
  • Pages: 185-187
  • First Published: 23 January 2009