Funding Information: This work was supported by ‘FCT—Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, IP’, grant number 2024.01089.BDANA. Additional financial support was provided by Uppsala University. Publisher Copyright: © 2025 BMJ Publishing Group. All rights reserved.; Introduction: Digital health technologies (DHTs) have emerged as transformative tools capable of improving healthcare delivery, reducing c...
Publisher Copyright: Copyright © Ordem dos Médicos 2025.; Introduction: Chronic kidney disease is the fastest-growing chronic disease in terms of prevalence and one of the biggest causes of global mortality according to the Global Burden of Disease Collaboration. This study aimed to project the natural disease progression of this disease in people with diabetes, and to quantify the costs and consequences in the...
Publisher Copyright: © 2025, International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research, Inc. Published by Elsevier Inc.; Objectives: Digital health technologies (DHTs) are reshaping healthcare delivery; yet, their diverse functionalities, dynamic nature, and nontraditional impact pathways challenge conventional economic evaluation methods. This scoping review aimed to systematically map existing framewo...
Funding Information: Obesity. Resources related to treatment of obesity were sourced from the Programa de Tratamento Cir\u00FArgico da Obesidade (PTCO) []. This programme is funded by the Portuguese National Health Service (NHS) and provides special access to treatment for patients with obesity. Medication costs were sourced from an IQVIA database (from 2020), where medication sales specifically targeting obesi...
Funding Information: This work was produced with the computational support of INCD – Instituto Nacional de Computação Distribuida – which is funded by Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia and FEDER under project 01/SAICT/2016 No. 022153. The authors would like to thank the Portuguese Central Administration of the Health System, I.P. (ACSS) for providing access to the data from the Portuguese Hospital Morbidity ...
Funding Information: Financing Support: This work received financial support from Biogen Portugal – Sociedade Farmacêutica Unipessoal Lda.. The funding was not conditional on the nature of the results, which are the sole responsibility of the authors. The study also received scientific support from Sociedade Portuguesa de Neurologia and Grupo de Estudos de Envelhecimento Cerebral e Demência. Publisher Copyright...