OBJECTIVES: This study determined the cost-effectiveness of expanding methadone
maintenance treatment for heroin addiction, particularly its effect on the HIV epidemic. METHODS: …

The transmissible nature of communicable diseases is what sets them apart from other
diseases modeled by health economists. The probability of a susceptible individual becoming …

Background: The cost-effectiveness of Canada's only supervised injection facility has not
been rigorously evaluated. We estimated the impact of the facility on survival, rates of HIV and …

Traditional cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) assumes that program costs and benefits scale
linearly with investment—an unrealistic assumption for epidemic control programs. This …

The transmissible nature of communicable diseases is what sets them apart from other
diseases modeled by health economists. The probability of a susceptible individual becoming …

Aims. To determine the cost‐effectiveness of buprenorphine maintenance therapy for opiate
addiction in the United States, particularly its effect on the HIV epidemic. Design. We …

We present a model for allocation of epidemic control resources among a set of interventions.
We assume that the epidemic is modeled by a general compartmental epidemic model, …

Background We sought to determine the impact of delays to admission from the Emergency
Department (ED) on inpatient length of stay (LOS), and IP cost. Methods We conducted a …

We develop a dynamic resource allocation model in which a limited budget for epidemic
control is allocated over multiple time periods to interventions that affect multiple populations. …

Very few studies have examined trends in multimorbidity over time and even fewer have
examined trends over time across different body mass index (BMI) groups. Given a general …