POSTER PRESENTATIONS SESSION II


Poster Session I Poster Session II Poster Session III
  • Health Care Use & Policy
  • Arthritis including skeletal issues

  • Diabetes

  • Endocrine Disorders

  • GI Disorders

  • Hematological Disorders

  • Individual’s Health

  • Respiratory Disorders

  • Skin

 
  • Asthma/Allergy
  • Cardiovascular Disease
  • Eye
  • Neurological
  • Osteoporosis
  • Smoking
  • Urinary/Kidney


 


METHODS & CONCEPTS

PMC1

SIMULATION MODELING OF CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE: IS APPLYING AVERAGE LIFE EXPECTANCY TO ALL SURVIVORS DETAILED ENOUGH?

 

Proskorovsky I1, Ishak KJ1, Migliaccio-Walle K2, Caro JJ2

 

1Caro Research Institute, Dorval, QC, Canada, 2Caro Research Institute, Concord, MA, USA

PMC2

EFFICIENT DATA MINING AND PROBABILISTIC INFERENCE WITH P-COURSE: A BAYESIAN METHOD WITH MULTILEVEL PRIORS FOR MEDICAL APPLICATIONS

 

Soini EJ1, Martikainen JA2, Lahtinen J3, Myllymäki P3, Kontkanen P3, Valtonen H4, Ryynänen OP5

 

1Department of Health Policy and Management, Department of Social Pharmacy, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland, 2Centre for Pharmaceutical Policy and Economics (CEPPE), Department of Social Pharmacy, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland, 3Complex Systems Computation Research Group (CoSCo), Helsinki Institute for Information Technology (HIIT), University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland, 4Department of Health Policy and Management, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland, 5General Practice, Department of Public Health and Clinical Nutrition, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland

PMC3

WITHDRAWN

 

PMC4

PRESENTING IGNORANCE: A POSSIBILITY INTERVAL APPROACH TO DEPICT HIGH-LEVEL UNCERTAINTY DUE TO CENSORING OR NON-RESPONDENTS

 

Turunen JH1, Soini EJ2

 

1Equal contribution of both authors. Department of Social Pharmacy, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland, 2Department of Social Pharmacy, Department of Health Policy and Management, University of Kuopio, Kuopio, Finland

PMC5

INDIRECT COSTS OF COMMON COLD IN GERMANY

 

Hessel FP, Wasem J

 

University of Duisburg-Essen, Essen, Germany

PMC6

IMPLEMENTING NATURAL HISTORY STUDIES IN EURASIA: THE NIEMANN-PICK EXPERIENCE WITH RAPIDLY CHANGING NATIONAL REGULATIONS

 

Madison M1, Finegan Y1, Sawyer R2, Koval S2, Cox G2

 

1Abt Associates Inc, Lexington, MA, USA, 2Genzyme Corporation, Cambridge, MA, USA

PMC7

Withdrawn

PMC8

ECONOMIC DECISION MODELLING: CALCULATION OF TOTAL NET MONETARY BENEFITS OF GUIDELINE IMPLEMENTATION INTO CLINICAL PRACTICE

 

Hoomans T1, Ament A1, Evers S2, Severens JL3

 

1Maastricht University, Maastricht, The Netherlands, 2Maastricht University, Maastricht, Nepal, 3Academic Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands

PMC9

A REVIEW OF FACTORS AFFECTING THERAPEUTIC COMPLIANCE

 

Jin J, Li SC

 

National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

PMC10

ESTIMATING UTILITY VALUES FOR HEALTH STATUS USING THE SPANISH VERSION OF THE SF-36. IS IT WORTHY TO CALCULATE WEIGHT VALUES FOR UTILITY MEASURES?

 

Rebollo P1, Morís J1, Prieto L2, Ortega F3, Ortega T3

 

1BAP Health Outcomes, Oviedo, Spain, 2Madrid, San Agustín de Guadalíx, Madrid, Spain, 3Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedo, Spain

PMC11

EFFECTIVE USE OF ELECTRONIC DATA CAPTURE (EDC) TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY AND EFFICIENCY OF THE ANALYSIS OF PATIENT REPORTED OUTCOMES

 

Ooms KL

 

Statwood, HITCHIN, Hertfordshire, UK

PMC12

REVIEW ON THE IMPACT OF DOSE FREQUENCY ON COMPLIANCE AND HEALTH OUTCOMES

 

Shi L1, Hodges M1, Yurgin NR2, Secnik K2

 

1Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, USA, 2Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, IN, USA

PMC13

EMPIRICAL RESEARCH FOR WILLINGNESSTO PAYFOR ONE QALY GAIN

 

Ohkusa Y, Sugawara T

 

National Institute of Infectious Diseases, Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan

PMC14

MEASURING PATIENT-REPORTED SIDE EFFECTS OF DRUGS: ITS IMPORTANCE AND METHODOLOGICAL CHALLENGES.

 

Foster JM1, Van der Molen T1, Caeser M2, Hannaford P3

 

1University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands, 2ALTANA Pharma AG, Konstanz, Germany, 3University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, Scotland, UK

PMC15

HOSPITAL PHARMACY DRUG DELIVERY TIME: A WORK FLOW MANAGEMENT ISSUE

 

Pierce CA1, Baker JJ2, McClard C2

 

1The Resource Group, Richfield, OH, USA, 2The Resource Group, Pickton, TX, USA

PMC16

PROPOSED CHANGES TO PHYSICIAN FEE SCHEDULE: 2007 PRACTICE EXPENSE CONCEPTUAL METHODOLOGY

 

Pierce CA1, Baker JJ2

 

1The Resource Group, Richfield, OH, USA, 2The Resource Group, Pickton, TX, USA

PMC17

MONITORING OF PHARMACEUTICAL COST OF REIMBURSED MEDICINES BY COMBINING OFFICIAL PHARMACY INVOICE DATA WITH COMMERCIAL IMS SALES DATA.

 

Van Wilder P, Arickx F, Van Haeren E, Bormans V

 

RIZIV-INAMI, Brussels, Belgium

PMC18

USING DISTANCE LEARNING TO UNDERSTAND DISCRETE EVENT SIMULATION

 

Hunting B, Moller J, Caro JJ

 

Caro Research Institute, Concord, MA, USA


CANCER

Clinical Outcomes Studies 

PCN1

THE EPIDEMIOLOGIC, HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE, AND ECONOMIC BURDEN OF GASTROINTESTINAL STROMAL TUMORS

 

Reddy P1, Boci K2, Charbonneau C3, Pashos CL1

 

1Abt Associates Inc, Lexington, MA, USA, 2Abt Associates Inc, Bethesda, MD, USA, 3Pfizer, New York, NY, USA

PCN2

INCIDENCE AND SURVIVAL STUDY BY STAGE AND ESTIMATED PREVALENCE OF RENAL PARENCHYMA CANCER IN FRANCE

 

Danzon A1, Langlois C1, Grosclaude P2, Colonna M3, Delafosse P3, Martin E4, Molinié F5, Tretarre B6, Velten M7, Levrat F8

 

1Registre des tumeurs du Doubs, Besançon, France, 2Tarn Cancer registry, Albi, France, 3Isere cancer registry, Meylan, France, 4Somme cancer registry, Amiens, France, 5Loire Atlantique and Vandée cancer redistry, Nantes, France, 6Herault cancer registry, Montpelliers, France, 7Universite Louis Pasteur, strasbourg, France, 8Pfizer, Paris, France

PCN3

EPIDEMIOLOGIC, HUMANISTIC AND ECONOMIC BURDEN OF PATIENTS WITH METASTATIC RENAL CELL CARCINOMA (MRCC)

 

Banks J1, Gupta K1, Balu S1, Chen E2, Komatsuzaki Y2, Charbonneau C3, Pashos CL1

 

1Abt Associates Inc, Lexington, MA, USA, 2Abt Associates Inc, Bethesda, MD, USA, 3Pfizer, New York, NY, USA

Cost Studies

PCN4

A COMPARATIVE BUDGET IMPACT (BI) ANALYSIS OF ARANESP® (DARBEPOETIN ALFA) 500µG Q3W VERSUS OTHER ERYTHROPOIESIS STIMULATING PROTEINS (ESP) IN CHEMOTHERAPY-INDUCED ANEMIA (CIA) IN SPAIN

 

Pérez Alcántara F1, Badia X2, Arocho R3

 

1Health Outcomes Research, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain, 2Health Outcomes Research Europe, Barcelona, Spain, 3Amgen SA, Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

PCN5

HEXVIX FLUORESCENCE CYSTOSCOPY FOR SUPERFICIAL BLADDER CANCER DIAGNOSIS: ANALYSIS OF BUDGET IMPACT ON THE SWEDISH HEALTH SERVICE

 

Thompson G1, Durrant H2, Kloster Y3

 

1Bridgehead International Ltd, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, UK, 2Bridgehead International Limited, Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, UK, 3Photocure ASA, Oslo, Norway

PCN6

PRIMARY PROPHYLAXIS WITH PEGFILGRASTIM IS COST-SAVING COMPARED WITH FILGRASTIM FOR BREAST CANCER IN SPAIN

 

Mayordomo JI1, Lopez Pousa A2, Arocho R3, Doan QV4, Dubois R4, Liu Z4

 

1Hospital Clinico Lozano Blesa, Zaragoza, Spain, 2Hospital Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain, 3Amgen SA, Barcelona, Spain, 4Cerner Health Insights, Beverly Hills, CA, USA

PCN7

IMPACT OF CHANGES IN THE FINANCING OF THE HEALTH SERVICES ON COSTS STRUCTURE ON THE EXAMPLE OF CHEMOTHERAPY OF ADVANCED OVARIAN CANCER

PCN8

RISE OF HEALTH RESOURCE UTILIZATION AND COSTS FOR SEQUENTIAL DOCETAXEL IN NODE-POSITIVE PRIMARY BREAST CANCER IN GERMAN HOSPITALS

 

Ihbe-Heffinger A1, Wagenpfeil S1, Jacobs VR1, Gillessen P1, Bernard R1, Sattler D2, Kuhn W3

 

1Klinikum rechts der Isar der Technischen Universität München, München, Germany, 2Städtisches Krankehaus München-Harlaching, München, Germany, 3Universität Bonn, Bonn, Germany

PCN9

ERLOTINIB IN NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER (NSCLC) IN GERMANY – A COST-SAVING SECOND-LINE TREATMENT OPTION?

 

Gabriel A, Pirk O, Kotowa W

 

Fricke & Pirk GmbH - Member of the IMS Health Group, Nuremberg, Germany

PCN10

INCREMENTAL COST-EFFECTIVENESS RATIO OF DARBEPOETIN ALFA (ARANESP®) IN THE TREATMENT OF CHEMOTHERAPY-INDUCED ANEMIA IN LUNG CANCER PATIENTS

 

Borget I1, Tilleul P2, Joly AC2, Chouaid C2

 

1Saint-Antoine Hospital, Paris, France, France, 2Saint-Antoine Hospital, Paris, France

PCN11

PHARMACOECONOMIC ANALYSES OF ERLOTINIB COMPARED WITH BEST SUPPORTIVE CARE (BSC) FOR THE TREATMENT OF RELAPSED NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER (NSCLC) FROM THE CANADIAN PUBLIC HEALTHCARE PERSPECTIVE

 

Côté I1, Leighl NB2, Gyldmark M3, Maturi B1

 

1Hoffmann-La Roche Limited, Mississauga, ON, Canada, 2Princess Margaret Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada, 3F Hoffmann La Roche, Basel, Switzerland

PCN12

COST EFFECTIVENESS OF ERLOTINIB IN THE TREATMENT OF ADVANCED NON SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER (NSCLC) IN POLAND

 

Orlewska E1, Szczesna A2, Gyldmark M3, Szkultecka-Debek M4

 

1Centrum Farmakoekonomiki, Warsaw, Poland, 2Regional Lung Diseases Hospital, Otwock, Poland, 3F Hoffmann La Roche, Basel, Switzerland, 4Roche Polska Sp. z o.o, Warsaw, Poland

PCN13

COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF ADJUVANT CAPECITABINE, MAYO CLINIC AND DE GRAMONT REGIMENS FOR STAGE III COLON CANCER IN THE FRENCH SETTING

 

Tilleul P1, Perrocheau G2, Lafuma A3, Roux E4

 

1Saint-Antoine Hospital, Paris, France, 2Centre Renée Gauducheau, Saint Herblain, France, 3Cemka-Eval, Bourg-la-Reine, France, 4Roche, Neuilly sur Seine, France

PCN14

COST-EFFECTIVENESS STUDY OF AN ASPIRIN CHEMOPREVENTION ASSOCIATED OR NOT WITH A COLONOSCOPIC SURVEILLANCE IN THE COLORECTAL CANCER

 

Francesconi C1, Benamouzig R2, Launois R1

 

1REES, Paris, France, 2Hopital Avicenne, Bobigny, France

PCN15

CAPECITABINE VS. BOLUS 5-FU/LV AS ADJUVANT THERAPY FOR PATIENTS WITH DUKES´ C COLON CANCER: PHARMACOECONOMIC EVALUATION OF X-ACT TRIAL - DATA FROM CZECH PERSPECTIVE

 

Jiraskova L1, Dolezal T2

 

1Faculty of Pharmacy, Charles University, Hradec Králové, Czech Republic, 2Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

PCN16

COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF SORAFENIB VERSUS BEST SUPPORTIVE CARE IN ADVANCED RENAL CELL CARCINOMA IN SPAIN

 

Maroto P1, Villavicencio H2, Piñol C3, Urruticoechea L4

 

1Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant Pau, Barcelona, Spain, 2Fundació Puigvert, Barcelona, Spain, 3Q.F. Bayer, S.A, Barcelona, Spain, 4Q. F. Bayer, S.A, Barcelona, Spain

PCN17

COST EFFECTIVENESS OF PRIMARY PROPHYLAXIS WITH PEGFILGRASTIM OR FILGRASTIM IN THE MEDICAL TREATMENT OF BREAST CANCER IN ITALY

 

Chiroli S1, Dubois RW2, Doan QV2, Liu Z2, Heissel A3, Palmeri S4, Danova M5

 

1Amgen, Milan, Italy, 2Cerner Health Insights, Beverly Hills, CA, USA, 3Amgen Europe, Zug, Switzerland, 4Policlinico Universitario P. Giaccone, Palermo, Italy, 5Clinica Medica, Pavia, Italy

PCN18

A SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS OF THE COST PER QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR (QALY) OF TRASTUZUMAB IN THE TREATMENT OF EARLY BREAST CANCER (EBC)

 

Geary U1, Lewis G2, Erny S3, Gyldmark M4, Morlotti L5, Walzer S6

 

1Roche Products Limited, Hertfordshire, UK, 2Roche Products Limited, Welwyn Garden City, Herts, UK, 3F. Hoffmann-La Roche Pharmaceuticals AG, Basel, Switzerland, 4F. Hoffmann-La Roche Ltd, Basel, Switzerland, 5Analytica Int, Loerrach, Germany, 6Analytica International, Loerrach, Germany

PCN19

COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF CETUXIMAB IN COMBINATION WITH RADIOTHERAPY VERSUS RADIOTHERAPY ALONE IN THE TREATMENT OF LOCALLY ADVANCED HEAD AND NECK CANCER IN SPAIN.

 

Brosa M1, Robinson P2, Brown B2

 

1Oblikue Consulting, Barcelona, SC, Spain, 2IMS Health, London, UK

PCN20

COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS OF LETROZOLE COMPARED TO TAMOXIFEN FOR TREATMENT OF EARLY BREAST CANCER IN THE HUNGARIAN HEALTH CARE SETTING

 

Kosa J

 

Novartis Hungary Ltd, Budapest, Pest, Hungary

PCN21

RETROSPECTIVE COMPARATIVE PHARMACOECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF VARIOUS TREATMENT SCHEMES IN PATIENTS WITH ADVANCED HODGKIN'S DISEASE

 

Tolkushin AG1, Yagudina RI1, Moiseeva TN2, Khabriev RU1

 

1Moscow Medical Academy, Moscow, Russia, 2Hematological Scientific Center of the Russian Academy of Medical Sciences, Moscow, Russia

PCN22

COST-EFFECTIVENESS (CE) OF THE PREVENTION OF ORAL MUCOSITIS (OM) WITH KEPIVANCE® (PALIFERMIN) IN PATIENTS UNDERGOING MYELOABLATIVE THERAPY WITH AUTOLOGOUS STEM CELL TRANSPLANTATION (ASCT) IN SPAIN.

 

Brosa M1, Arocho R2

 

1Oblikue Consulting, Barcelona, SC, Spain, 2Amgen SA, Barcelona, Spain

PCN23

ADDING RITUXIMAB TO STANDARD CHEMOTHERAPY IS COST NEUTRAL AND CLINICALLY SUPERIOR IN ADVANCED STAGE NON-HODGKIN'S LYMPHOMA (NHL)

 

Hieke K1, Herold M2

 

1NEOS Health, Binningen, Switzerland, 2HELIOS Klinikum Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany

PCN24

PEGFILGRASTIM PRIMARY PROPHYLAXIS IS MORE COST-EFFECTIVE THAN FILGRASTIM IN WOMEN WITH BREAST CANCER RECEIVING CHEMOTHERAPY IN FRANCE

 

Bogillot O1, Dubois R2, Doan QV2, Liu Z2, Heissel A3, Di Palma M4

 

1Amgen S.A, Paris, France, 2Cerner Health Insights, Beverly Hills, CA, USA, 3Amgen Europe, Zug, Switzerland, 4Insitut Gustave Roussy, Villejuif Cedex, France

PCN25

TREATMENT OF ACTINIC KERATOSIS (AK) AND BASAL CELL CARCINOMA (BCC) WITH METVIX® (MAL-PDT) IN REAL LIFE PRACTICE: A COST OF ILLNESS AND MODEL VALIDATION STUDY

 

Caekelbergh K, Annemans L

 

IMS Health Economics and Outcomes Research (HEOR), Brussels, Belgium

PCN26

PHARMACOECONOMIC ANALYSIS IN SPAIN OF THERAPY WITH ERLOTINIB, DOCETAXEL, PEMETREXED OR BEST SUPPORTIVE CARE IN PATIENTS WITH ADVANCED NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER WHO HAVE FAILED PREVIOUS CHEMOTHERAPY REGIMENS

 

Rubio Terres C1, Alvarez Sanz C2, Marlene Gylmark GM3

 

1Hero Consulting, Madrid, Spain, 2Roche Farma, Madrid, Spain, 3Hoffman-La Roche Inc, Basel, Switzerland

PCN27

COST-EFFECTIVENESS AND COST-UTILITY OF FENTANYL TTS (DUROGESIC® 25, 50) VS. SR/IR ORAL MORPHINES IN THE MANAGEMENT OF CHRONIC CANCER PAIN

 

Estevez-Carrizo FE

 

University of Montevideo, Uruguay, Montevideo, Uruguay

PCN28

SHOULD FOTEMUSTINE BE USED AS THE FIRST LINE TREATMENT

 

Faluta T, Czech M, Pachocki R

 

Servier Polska, Warsaw, Poland

PCN29

ECONOMIC ADVANTAGES AND TIMESAVING OF USING OXALIPLATIN CONCENTRATED SOLUTION VERSUS OXALIPLATIN LYOPHILISED POWDER FOR INFUSION

 

Favier B1, Spath HM2, Anhoury P3, Pacull A3

 

1Centre Leon Berard, Lyon, France, 2GRESAC, Lyon, France, 3IMS Health Consulting & Services, Puteaux, France

PCN30

ECONOMIC EVALUATION OF FOLFOX4 VERSUS FOLFOX7 WITH OXALIPLATIN STOP-AND-GO IN ADVANCED COLORECTAL CANCER PATIENTS

 

Tilleul P1, Jasso Mosqueda G2, Trancart A2, Joly AC1, Tournigand C1, Maindrault-Goebel F1, Le Pen C2, De Gramont A1

 

1Saint-Antoine Hospital, Paris, France, 2Aremis-aegisnet, Neuilly sur Seine, France

PCN31

A COST MINIMISATION ANALYSIS OF NAVELBINE-CISPLATIN VERSUS GEMCITABINE-CISPLATIN IN ADVANCED NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER IN POLAND

 

Skowron A, Polak S, Brandys J

 

Jagiellonian University, Cracow, Malopolska, Poland

PCN32

COST-MINIMIZATION ANALYSIS OF ORAL VS. IV FLUDARABINE FOR THE TREATMENT OF B-CELL CHRONIC LYMPHOCYTIC LEUKEMIA (B-CLL) IN BRAZIL

 

Araujo G1, Fonseca M1, Bigni R2

 

1Axia.Bio Consulting, São Paulo, Brazil, 2INCA, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

PCN33

A COST-CONSEQUENCE ANALYSIS OF DARBEPOETIN ALFA ADMINISTERED EVERY 3 WEEKS (Q3W_DA) COMPARED TO WEEKLY EPOETIN ALFA (QW_EA) OR EPOETIN BETA (QW_EB) IN PATIENTS WITH CHEMOTHERAPY-INDUCED ANEMIA (CIA): A RETROSPECTIVE STUDY

 

Van Bellinghen LA1, Demarteau N1, Annemans L1, Bracco A2

 

1IMS HEOR, Brussels, Belgium, 2Amgen (Europe) GmbH, Zug, Switzerland

PCN34

EFFECT OF METASTASIS LOCALIZATION ON SYMPTOMS AND ASSISTANCE COSTS IN ADVANCED NSCLC PATIENTS. FURTHER EVIDENCE FROM THE HABIT STUDY.

 

Negrini C1, Falcone A2

 

1Pbe consulting, Milano, Italy, 2AstraZeneca, Basiglio, MI, Italy

PCN35

BURDEN OF ILLNESS OF RENAL CELL CARCINOMA IN SPAIN

 

Maroto P1, Villavicencio H2, Piñol C3, Urruticoechea L4

 

1Hospital de la Santa Creu i Sant