Comparison of the cost-effectiveness of budesonide and sodium cromoglycate in the management of childhood asthma in everyday clinical practice

A systematic review of economic evaluations of therapy in asthma

“…In two studies the cost-effectiveness of ICSs versus sodium cromoglycate in asthma patients was examined 7,50. In the first study, the cost-effectiveness of sodium cromoglycate was compared with BUD in children age 5–11 years.…”

The Inclusion of Informal Care in Applied Economic Evaluation: A Review

“…Most of the studies that stated how carers' time input was estimated used a recall questionnaire. Only a few studies used carer diaries [30,36,[53][54][55], although these were often more recent studies. Both the opportunity cost method and the proxy good method were used to value carers' time inputs (the former was more popular).…”

“…When time was valued by using a proxy, studies used either the wage of a paid carer [37,45,47,49,51) or the wage of a cleaner [40,41,52,56), irrespective of what informal care was undertaken. For studies that valued time by using the opportunity cost method, it was typically assumed that the carer had given up paid work to provide care and the studies variously used the average wage rate [29,30,37,43,47,57,54,55), minimum wage rate [36,39,45,46,50,51,53], actual wage of the carer [31,42], or wages of matched individuals [33] to value this time.…”

“…The studies evaluated a wide range of interventions, with the majority being interventions targeted at patients (such as drugs [29,30,37,39,43,47,52,53,58] and vaccinations [31,42,48]). Ten studies, however, evaluated interventions that clearly targeted carers.…”

Capítulo III - tratamento

“…Embora consideradas antiinflamatórias, a redução da hiper-responsividade brônquica observada com a utilização das cromonas é modesta (35) . O nedocromil e o cromoglicato bloqueiam os canais de cloro da membrana celular dos mastócitos, eosinófilos, nervos e células epiteliais (36) .…”