Costs of Hospital Stay in Specialized Diabetic Foot Department in Russia.

Background: Diabetic foot ulcer (DFU) is considered to be one of the most common and costly diabetic complications. The approach unanimously recommended for patients with DFU is treatment by a multidisciplinary foot care team, which in Russia mainly is limited to few federal and regional hospitals. Currently, financing schemes for medical institutions are changing, thus raising the issue of setting adequate tariffs.

[CLINICAL AND ECONOMIC ANALYSIS OF ALTERNATIVE SCHEMES OF ANTIVIRAL THERAPY OF CHRONIC HEPATITIS C GENOTYPE 1 IN PATIENTS WHO DID NOT ANSWER TO THE PRIOR THERAPY, IN THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION].

We conducted clinical and economic analysis of the protease inhibitor simeprevir versus currently available in Russia protease inhibitors (boceprevir and telaprevir) in combination with pegylated interferon and ribavirin and dual therapy with pegylated interferon and ribavirin in patients with chronic hepatitis C genotype 1 without polymorphism Q80K, who had not responded to previous treatment. Global cost-effectiveness model was adapted to the Russian health care system. We calculated differences in direct medical costs between the antiviral therapy schemes, treatment of long-term complications of chronic hepatitis C and the costs of achieving sustained virological response (SVR) to treatment.