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Monday, 16 October 2006: 4:30 PM-6:00 PM
Ballroom D (Hyatt Regency Cambridge)
Concurrent Abstracts D: Technology Assessment
Session Chairs:Joseph M. Mrus, M.D.
Scott B. Cantor, PhD
4:30 PMCOST EFFECTIVENESS OF NEBIVOLOL COMPARED WITH STANDARD TREATMENT IN PATIENTS AGED 70 YEARS OR MORE WITH HEART FAILURE: ECONOMIC EVALUATION ALONGSIDE THE SENIORS TRIAL
Nick Freemantle, PhD, Guiqing Lily Yao, MSc, Marcus Flather, PhD, Andrew Coats, PhD, Philip A. Poole-Wilson, PhD
4:45 PMDOES BUPRENORPHINE'S BETTER SAFETY PROFILE MAKE IT MORE COST-EFFECTIVE THAN METHADONE?
Amanda J. Burls, MBBS, Marting Connock, PhD, Dechao Wang
5:00 PMEFFECTIVENESS OF MRI FOR BREAST CANCER SURVEILLANCE IN BRCA1 GENE MUTATION CARRIERS
Janie Lee, MD, MS, Daniel B. Kopans, MD, Pamela McMahon, PhD, Elkan Halpern, PhD, Paula D. Ryan, MD, PhD, Milton C. Weinstein, PhD, G. Scott Gazelle, MD, MPH, PhD
5:15 PMTHE COST-EFFECTIVENESS OF METHADONE AND BUPRENORPHINE MAINTENANCE THERAPY FOR THE MANAGEMENT OF OPIOID DEPENDENCE
Ariadna Juarez-Garcia, Sue Jowett, Tracy Roberts, Emma Frew, Rebecca Taylor, Martin Connock, Amanda Burls, Rod Taylor
5:30 PMEXTRACTING EVIDENCE OF ADHERENCE TO QUALITY OF CARE GUIDELINES FROM THE ELECTRONIC MEDICAL RECORD: FOOT EXAMINATION IN DIABETES CARE
Serguei Pakhomov, PhD, Susan Bjornsen, Penny Hanson, Steven Smith, MD
5:45 PMUSING "REAL-WORLD" DATA TO EVALUATE THE COST EFFECTIVENESS OF DRUG ELUTING STENTS (DES) COMPARED TO BARE METAL STENTS (BMS)
James M. Bowen, BScPhm, MSc, Gordon Blackhouse, MBA, Robert Hopkins, MA, Yaohua He, MD, PhD, Charles Lazzam, MD, Jack Tu, MD, PhD, Eric Cohen, BSc, MD, Jean-Eric Tarride, PhD, MA, Ron Goeree, MA

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