Using cost-effectiveness analysis to sharpen formulary decision-making: The example of tiotropium at the veterans affairs health care system

Medicine & Life Sciences

• Tiotropium Bromide 100%
• Formularies 90%
• Veterans Health 87%
• Cost-Benefit Analysis 58%
• Decision Making 55%
• Ipratropium 42%
• Delivery of Health Care 40%
• Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease 39%
• Veterans 23%
• Costs and Cost Analysis 18%
• Hospitalization 11%
• Baltimore 9%
• Cost of Illness 8%
• Electronic Health Records 7%
• Prescriptions 6%
• Population 2%

Social Sciences

• Health Care System 67%
• decision making 42%
• costs 37%
• hospitalization 12%
• treatment effectiveness 8%
• Medical records 6%
• medication 4%
• electronics 3%