ISPOR 6th Annual International Meeting May 20 - 23, 2001 Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia During the ISPOR Sixth Annual International Meeting, May 20 - 23, 2001 Hyatt Regency Crystal City, Arlington, Virginia, the scientific merit exhibited in contributed poster and podium presentations was recognized with awards given by authors' groups: general, students and new investigators. This year, the ISPOR Awards Committee evaluated approximately 48 podium presentations and 311 poster presentations. A SPECIAL THANKS GOES TO KEM KRUEGER, CHAIR OF THE AWARDS COMMITTEE AND HIS COMMITTEE FOR ALL THEIR EFFORTS IN SELECTING THE WINNERS. And the winners are... BEST CONTRIBUTED PAPER AWARDS PODIUM PRESENTATIONS "A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF HEALTH STATE VALUES FOR OSTEOPOROSIS RELATED CONDITIONS" Brazier JE1, Green C2, Kanis J1, 1University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK; 2MEDTAP UK, London, UK "PSYCHOMETRIC EVALUATION OF THE CAP-SYM QUESTIONNAIRE: A NEW, PATIENT-BASED MEASURE OF SYMPTOMS IN COMMUNITY ACQUIRED PNEUMONIA" Lamping D1, Schroter S1, Sagnier PP2, Duprat-Lomon I2, 1London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, London, UK; 2Bayer Plc, Slough, UK "APPLICATION OF THE RASCH MODEL TO THE SF36 MENTAL HEALTH 5 ITEM SCALE (MHS)" Perneger TV, Bovier PA, Geneva University Hospital, Geneva, Switzerland BEST NEW INVESTIGATOR PODIUM PRESENTATION "DO SHORT-ACTING OPIATES IN OFF-PUMP BYPASS SURGERY REDUCE LENGTH OF STAY OR TOTAL HOSPITAL COSTS?" Reddy P1, Feret B2, Kulicki L2, Jordan S2, Donahue S2, Quercia R2, 1University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA; 2Hartford Hospital, Hartford, CT USA "USING SELF-ADMINISTERED DIRECT TTO QUESTIONS TO ELICIT UTILITY VALUES FOR ASTHMATIC PATIENTS WITH DIFFERENT SEVERITY OF DISEASE" Szende A1, Meszaros A2, Berta GY3, Stahl E4, Svensson K4, 1AstraZeneca, Torokbalint, Hungary; 2Semmelweis Medical University, Budapest, Hungary; 3Hospital for Chest Diseases, Mosdos, Hungary; 4AstraZeneca R&D Lund, Lund, Sweden BEST STUDENT PODIUM PRESENTATION "ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF DALTEPARIN, ENOXAPARIN AND UNFRACTIONATED HEPARIN IN THE TREATMENT OF DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS" Riseborough NA, Mittmann N, HOPE Research Centre, Toronto, ON, Canada BEST CONTRIBUTED PAPER AWARDS POSTER PRESENTATIONS "Comparing Mean vs Median Survival as A Prelude to Cost-Effectiveness (C/E) Analysis" Gagnon DD1, Martin SC1, van Hout B2, 1The R.W. Johnson Pharmaceutical Research Institute, Raritan, NJ, USA; 2Utrecht University, Utrecht, Netherlands "Patient Adherence to and Cost of Drug Therapy in a Three-tiered Co-Payment Structure" Hutchison S, AdvancePCS, Scottsdale, AZ, USA BEST NEW INVESTIGATOR POSTER PRESENTATION "A Pharmacoeconomic Analysis of Weight-Reduction Therapy in a Hypothetical Cohort of Obese Chinese Patients with impaired Glucose Tolerance" Lee KK, You JH, Ho SS, Leung WY, Thomas G, Chan TY, Critchley J, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China "Patient's Willingness to Pay for Pharmacist Managed Warfarin Therapy at Community Pharmacies" Wong PK, Jang R, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA BEST STUDENT POSTER PRESENTATION "The Cost-Effectiveness of Genetic Testing for Periodontal Disease: A Payer's Perspective" Higashi MK1, Veenstra D1, del Aguila M2, Hujoel P1, 1University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; 2Washington Dental Service, Seattle, WA, USA "A Survey of Public Hospital Pharmacists in Singapore on Their Virus About 'The Formulary' and its Decision-Making Process" Roy A, Li SC, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore "Survival & Nursing Home Free Survival (NHFS) of Alzheimer's Disease Patients" Wu EQ, Hay J, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA