Publications by authors named "Costanza Santori"
Objectives: Scientific literature debates on the economic affordability of transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) in order to give a useful support to decision makers aiming at establishing a reimbursement scheme for TAVI. For this reason, it is important to assess the quality and the generalizability of the existing economic evidences.
Methods: The first step was to run a literature search according to a predefined population, intervention, comparator, and outcome on the cost and effectiveness of the TAVI procedure in comparison to medical therapy and traditional surgery.
Background And Objectives: Current evidence shows that tapentadol hydrochloride prolonged-release is more cost effective than other opioids. However, the introduction into the market of generic formulations of traditional comparators, leading to potential savings due to their lower price, creates space for further research. The objective of this study is to evaluate and compare the efficacy of tapentadol versus oxycodone/naloxone and the economic impact of the two alternatives in both branded and generic formulations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: All health economics reviews on chronic and episodic migraine published to date underline the heterogeneity of results. Currently, the need for the generalizability of economic evaluations across different jurisdictions is considered a key issue to avoid unnecessary overlaps and to minimize the time to reimbursement decisions.
Objective: The aim of this study was to review the economic evaluations on the prophylaxis and treatments for migraine published in the previous 10 years (since 2009) and to perform a critical assessment of their generalizability.