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Economic Evaluation of the Portuguese Needle Exchange Program in Community Phar...
Gouveia, M; Carneiro, AV; Costa, S; Guerreiro, J; Cary, M; Jesus, G; Gouveia, M; Borges, MObjectivesTo conduct a cost-effectiveness analysis comparing two scenarios of the Needle Exchange Program (NEP) in Portugal: with and without community pharmacies (CP). Methods Health gains were measured by the number of HIV and HCV infections avoided. The number of infections in each scenario was estimated based on a standard model in the literature (Jacobs et al, 1994) calibrated to the national epidemiologic...
The Place of DPP-4 Inhibitors in the Treatment Algorithm of Diabetes Type 2: a ...
Baptista, A; Teixeira, I; Romano, S; Carneiro, AV; Perelman, JObjectiveTo conduct a systematic review of cost-effectiveness, cost-utility, and cost-benefit studies of DPP-4 inhibitors for diabetes treatment versus other antidiabetics. Methods Three investigators searched the CRD York, Tufts CEA Registry, and MEDLINE databases through 2015. We reviewed all potentially relevant titles and abstracts, and screened full-text articles, according to inclusion criteria. We establ...
Dispensing of Specialist HIV Drugs in Community Pharmacies-Evaluation of Effect...
Gouveia, M; Rodrigues, AT; Borges, M; Costa, J; Fiorentino, F; Jesus, J; Rodrigues, AT; Cary, M; Guerreiro, J; Heudtlass, P; Costa, S; Carneiro, AVBackgroundThe prospect of chronic HIV patients obtaining their ART medication in community settings has considerable interest for health authorities. In Portugal, the Health Ministry promoted a pilot study randomizing the dispensing of ART therapy to hospital pharmacies and to community pharmacies in order to assess the impact of a transfer of dispensing from the current hospital setting. This study “piggy back...