The Challenges in Conducting Economic Evaluations for Rehabilitation Technologies.

Background: Health technology assessment (HTA) is an important evidentiary component in the decision-making process for the adoption of new healthcare technologies to the healthcare system. Economic evidence is an important consideration in HTAs. Recent systematic reviews in rehabilitation have shown a limited number of economic evaluations and high levels of uncertainty in the results.

Outreach physiatry clinics in remote Manitoba communities: an economic cost analysis.

Background: One in 5 people in Canada have a disability affecting daily activities, and, for rural patients, accessing lifelong physiatry care to improve function and manage symptoms requires complex and expensive travel. We compared the costs of new outreach physiatry clinics with those of conventional urban clinics in Manitoba.

Methods: Six outreach clinics were held from January 2018 to September 2019 in the remote communities of St.

Publicly funded home care service use in the first 2 years after spinal cord injury in Ontario, Canada.

The objectives of this study were to describe home care utilization and costs in community-dwelling individuals 2 years post-spinal cord injury (SCI) in Ontario, Canada. This retrospective incident cohort study uses administrative health care data to identify individuals with traumatic SCI (tSCI). Time to service delivery and frequency of service delivery and costs were calculated.

The lifetime cost of spinal cord injury in Ontario, Canada: A population-based study from the perspective of the public health care payer.

Objective: To determine the publicly funded health care system lifetime cost-of-illness of spinal cord injury (SCI) from the perspective of the Ontario Ministry of Health and Long-term Care.

Methods: Individuals hospitalized for their first SCI between the years 2005 and 2011 were identified and their health care costs were calculated using Ontario administrative health care data. From this information, lifetime costs were estimated using phase-based costing methods.

Pregnancy outcome of women exposed to bupropion during pregnancy: a prospective comparative study.

Objective: Bupropion was developed for the treatment of depression, but subsequently was found to be effective for smoking cessation. To date, there are no prospective comparative studies examining its safety in pregnancy. The primary objective was to determine whether bupropion increases the risks for major malformations above baseline.