The impact of hormone replacement therapy on quality of life and willingness to pay

BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology

Volumn 104, Issue 10, 1997, Pages 1191-1195

  Zethraeus, Niklas ^a   Johannesson, Magnus ^a   Henriksson, Peter ^b   Strand, Roland T ^b  

^a STOCKHOLM SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (Sweden)

^b Division of Obstetrics and Gynecology Södertälje Hospital   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTROGEN; GESTAGEN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; ESTROGEN DEFICIENCY; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HORMONE SUBSTITUTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; QUALITY OF LIFE;

AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; ESTROGEN REPLACEMENT THERAPY; FEMALE; FINANCING, PERSONAL; HUMANS; MENOPAUSE; MIDDLE AGED; PRESCRIPTION FEES; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUALITY OF LIFE; SWEDEN;

EID: 0030955234     PISSN: 14700328     EISSN: 14710528     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1471-0528.1997.tb10945.x     Document Type: Article

References (21)

1. Karlberg J, Mattsson L-Å, Wiklund I. A quality of life perspective on who benefits from estradiol replacement therapy. Acta Obstet Gynecol Scand 1995; 74: 367–372.
2. Wiklund I, Karlberg J, Mattsson L-Å. Quality of life of postmeno-pausal women on a regimen of transdermal estradiol therapy: a double-blind placebo-controlled study. Am J Obstet Gynecol 1993; 168: 824–830.
3. Drummond MF, Stoddart GL, Torrance GW. Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes. Oxford: Oxford Medical Publications, 1987.
4. Weinstein MC. Estrogen use in postmenopausal women: costs, risks, and benefits. N Engl J Med 1980; 303: 308–316.
5. Weinstein MC, Schiff I. Cost-effectiveness of hormone replacement therapy in the menopause. Obstet Gynaecol Surv 1983; 38: 445–455.
6. Tosteson A, Rosenthal DI, Melton LJ, Weinstein MC. Cost-effectiveness of screening perimenopausal white women for osteoporosis: bone densitometry and hormone replacement theory. Ann Intern Med 1990; 113: 594–603.
7. Daly E, Roche M, Barlow D, Gray A, McPherson K, Vessey M. HRT: an analysis of benefits, risks and costs. Br Med Bull 1992; 48: 368–400.
8. Cheung AP, Wren BG. A cost-effectiveness analysis of hormone replacement therapy in the menopause. Med J Aust 1992; 156: 312–316.
9. Daly E, Gray A, Barlow D, McPherson K, Roche M, Vessey M. Measuring the impact of menopausal symptoms on quality of life. BMJ 1993; 307: 836–840.
10. Read, JL, Quinn RJ, Berwick DM, Fineberrg HV, Weinstein MC. Preference for health outcomes: comparison of assessment methods. Med Decis Making 1984; 4: 315–329.
11. Homberger JC, Redelmeier DA, Peterson J. Variability among methods to assess patients’ well-being and consequent effect on a cost-effectiveness analysis. J Clin Epidemiol 1992; 45: 505–512.
12. Weinstein MC, Siegel JE, Gold MR, Kamlet MS, Russell LB. Recommendations of the panel on cost-effectiveness in health and medicine. JAMA 1996; 276: 1253–1258.
13. The Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care (SBU). Oestrogen Treatment, SBU-report no. 131. Stockholm: SBU, 1996.
14. Östrogen/Gestagen. Kvinnor över 50 allt mer hormoniska. National Corporation of Swedish Pharmacies. IA kontakt 1995; 5: 1–4.
15. Johannesson M, Jonsson B. Economic evaluation in health care: is there a role for cost-benefit analysis Health Policy 1991; 17: 1–23.
16. Mitchell, RC, Carson RT. Using Surveys to Value Public Goods: the Contingent Valuation Method. Washington DC: Resources for the Future, 1989.
17. Carson RT. Constructed markets. In: Braden JB, Kolstad CD, editors. Measuring the Demand for Environmental Quality. Amsterdam: Elsevier/North Holland, 1991.
18. Kristrom, B. A non-parametric approach to the estimation of welfare measures of discrete response valuation studies. Land Economics 1990; 66: 135–139.
19. Newbold P. Statistics for Business and Economics. Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, USA: Prentice-Hall, 1991.
20. Greene WH. Econometric Analysis. New York: Macmillan, 1993.
21. Russell JD, Beecroft ML, Ludwin D, Churchill DN. The quality of life in renal transplantation-A prospective study. Transplantation 1992; 54: 656–660.