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Health economic evaluation of the 'Flying Intervention Team as a novel stroke care concept for rural areas: study protocol of the TEMPiS-GÖA study
The objective of the present paper is to describe the methods for the economic evaluation (TEMPiS-Gesundheitsökonomische Analyse (TEMPiS-GÖA)) alongside the TEMPiS-FIT study to determine whether the new form of care is cost-effective compared with standard care. Methods and analysis The within-trial cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) and cost–utility analysis (CUA) will be performed from a statutory health insurance perspective as well as from a societal perspective over the time horizon of 12 months after the patients’ hospital discharge. Direct costs from outpatient and inpatient care are coll...
Source: BMJ Open - September 20, 2022 Category: General Medicine Authors: Coors, M., Flemming, R., Schüttig, W., Hubert, G. J., Hubert, N. D., Sundmacher, L. Tags: Open access, Health economics Source Type: research

Reorganizing stroke and neurological intensive care during the COVID-19 pandemic in Germany
Acta Biomed. 2021 Nov 3;92(5):e2021266. doi: 10.23750/abm.v92i5.10418.ABSTRACTThe outbreak of coronavirus disease 19 (COVID-19) has dramatically imposed healthcare systems to reorganize their departments, including neurological wards. We aimed to describe the rearrangements made by stroke units (SU) and neurological intensive care units (ICU) in several German community and university hospitals facing the pandemic. This cross-sectional, survey-based, nationwide study collected data of 15 university and 4 community hospitals in Germany, being part of IGNITE Study Group, from April 1 to April 6, 2020. The rearrangements and ...
Source: Acta Bio-Medica : Atenei Parmensis - November 5, 2021 Category: General Medicine Authors: Niklas Alexander K ämpfer Andrea Naldi Nicola Luigi Bragazzi Klaus Fassbender Martin Lesmeister Piergiorgio Lochner Source Type: research

Fast-Paced Compelling Topics at Atlantic Pulse: The Atlantic Summit on Health Care, Boston
by Deb Gordon, Janice McCallum, Danny Sands On Tuesday, April 30, a roomful of health care insiders enjoyed a series of rapid-fire, TED-esque talks, interviews, and panels by leading health care voices at The Atlantic Summit on Health Care (#AtlanticPulse). Several SPM members attended the forum, and we reflected on the most salient themes we took away. Time’s Up, health care! The power and value of diversity was on display throughout the day, as was evidence that health care has a long way to go before the professionals in Esther Choo and Janice McCallum the field reflect the full heterogeneity of American patients. L...
Source: Society for Participatory Medicine - May 2, 2019 Category: General Medicine Authors: Danny Sands, MD Tags: General Source Type: news

Practice patterns and outcomes after stroke across countries at different economic levels (INTERSTROKE): an international observational study
Publication date: 19–25 May 2018 Source:The Lancet, Volume 391, Issue 10134 Author(s): Peter Langhorne, Martin J O'Donnell, Siu Lim Chin, Hongye Zhang, Denis Xavier, Alvaro Avezum, Nandini Mathur, Melanie Turner, Mary Joan MacLeod, Patricio Lopez-Jaramillo, Albertino Damasceno, Graeme J Hankey, Antonio L Dans, Ahmed Elsayed, Charles Mondo, Mohammad Wasay, Anna Czlonkowska, Christian Weimar, Afzal Hussein Yusufali, Fawaz Al Hussain, Liu Lisheng, Hans-Christoph Diener, Danuta Ryglewicz, Nana Pogosova, Romana Iqbal, Rafael Diaz, Khalid Yusoff, Aytekin Oguz, Xingyu Wang, Ernesto Penaherrera, Fernando Lanas, Okechukwu S Ogah...
Source: The Lancet - May 18, 2018 Category: General Medicine Source Type: research