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Atherosclerosis in the Primary Health Care Setting: A Real-Word Data Study
Ascenção, R; Alarcão, J; Araújo, F; Costa, J; Fiorentino, F; Gil, V; Gouveia, M; Lourenço, F; Mello e Silva, A; Vaz Carneiro, A; Borges, MIntroduction and objectives: To characterize patients with atherosclerosis, a disease with a high socioeconomic impact, in the Lisbon and Tagus Valley Health Region. Methods: A cross-sectional observational study was carried out through the Lisbon and Tagus Valley Regional Health Administration primary health care database, extracting data on the clinical and demographic characteristics and resource use of adul...
The burden of atherosclerosis in Portugal
Costa, J; Alarcão, J; Araujo, F; Ascenção, R; Caldeira, D; Fiorentino, F; Gil, V; Gouveia, M; Lourenço, F; Mello E Silva, A; Sampaio, F; Vaz-Carneiro, AAims: This paper sought to estimate the burden of disease attributable to atherosclerosis in mainland Portugal in 2016. Methods and results: The burden of atherosclerosis was measured in disability-adjusted life years (DALY) following the latest 2010 Global Burden of Disease (GBD) methodology. DALYs were estimated as the sum of years of life lost (YLL) with years lived with disability (YLD). The following clini...
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...
Cost-Effectiveness of the 13-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine in Children ...
Gouveia, M; Fiorentino, F; Jesus, G; Costa, J; Borges, MPneumococcal infections are the leading cause of vaccine-preventable death in children. In June 2015, the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) was introduced in the Portuguese Immunization Program. We evaluated the cost-effectiveness of children vaccinated with PCV13 versus no vaccination for preventing pneumococcal diseases.
Cost-Effectiveness of Non-Vitamin K Antagonist Oral Anticoagulants for Atrial F...
Costa, J; Fiorentino, F; Caldeira, D; Inês, M; Lopes Pereira, C; Pinheiro, L; Vaz-Carneiro, A; Borges, M; Gouveia, MINTRODUCTION AND OBJECTIVES:Recently, three novel non-vitamin K antagonist oral anticoagulants received approval for reimbursement in Portugal for patients with non-valvular atrial fibrillation (AF). It is therefore important to evaluate the relative cost-effectiveness of these new oral anticoagulants in Portuguese AF patients. METHODS: A Markov model was used to analyze disease progression over a lifetime hori...