Selected Publications
Niessen LW, Mohan D, Koehlmoos T, Akuoku J, Trujillo A, Peters DH: Chronic diseases and poverty in low- and middle income settings - a systematic review. JECH, 2012. Forth coming.
Mirelman A, Mentzakis M, Kinter E, Ferraz Bosi M, Paoluci F, Fordham R, Baltussen R, Niessen LW: Decision making among national policy makers: eliciting relative preferences for equity and efficiency in six countries. Value in Health. 2012. In press.
Mirelman A, Pérez Koehlmoos T, Niessen LW: Risk-Attributable Chronic Disease Burden and Prevention Cost in Bangladesh. Global Heart 2012. In press.
Defechereux T, Paolucci F, Mirelman A, Youngkong, Botten S, Hagen TP, Niessen LW: Health care priority setting in Norway - a multi-criteria decision analysis. BMC Health Services Research, 2012 Feb 15;12:39.
Gallego, G, Bridges J, Flynn, T, Blauvelt, B, Niessen, LW. Using best-worst scaling in horizon scanning for hepatocellular carcinoma technologies, IJTAHC. 2012. Forthcoming.
Suhrcke M, Boluarte T, Niessen LW: A systematic review of economic evaluations of interventions to tackle cardiovascular disease in low- and middle-income countries. BMC Public Health. 2012 Jan 3;12:2..
Dirks M, Baeten SA, Dippel D, Exel NJA, Wijngaarden JDA, Koudstaal PJ, Niessen LW: Real-life costs and effects of an implementation program to increase thrombolysis in stroke. Neurology, 2012. Forthcoming.
Bridges JFP, Anderson BO, Buzaid AC, Jazieh AR,Niessen LW, Blauvelt BM, Buchanan D: Identifying Important Breast Cancer Control Strategies in Asia, Latin America and the Middle East/North Africa BMC Health Services Research 2011 Sep 20;11:227
Dirks M, Niessen LW, Wijngaarden v JD, Koudstaal PJ, Franke CL, Oostenbrugge RJ, Dippel DW. The effectiveness of thrombolysis with intravenous alteplase for acute ischaemic stroke in daily practice. Int J Stroke 2011 Dec 14.
Baeten SA, Baltussen RMPM, Uyl-de Groot C, Bridges, JFP, Niessen LW. Reducing Disparities in Breast Cancer Survival – the effect of Large-Scale Screening of the Uninsured. Breast Journal, 2011 Jul doi:101111
Cerqueira MT, Cravioto A Dianis N, Ghannem H, Levitt N, Yan LL, Kimaiyo S, Koehlmoos T,Miranda J, Niessen L, Prabhakaran D, Ramirez-Zea M, Rubinstein A, Wu Y, Xavier D, Smith R: Global response to non-communicable disease. BMJ 2011, July;342.
Dirks M, Niessen LW. Wijngaarden J, Koudstaal PJ, Franke CL, Dippel D: The effectiveness of thrombolysis with intravenous alteplase for acute ischaemic stroke in older patients. J Am Geriatric Society, 2011. In press.
World Bank: Towards a Healthy and Harmonious Life in China – Stemming The Rising Epidemic of Non-Communicable Diseases. July 2011.
Ozawa S, Stack ML, Bishai, D, Mirelman A, Friberg I, Niessen L, Walker D, Levine O: During the 'Decade of Vaccines', the Lives of 6.4 million children valued at $230 billion could be saved. Health Affairs 2011, June 30: 1010-20
Stack ML, Ozawa S, Bishai, D, Mirelman A,Tam Y, Niessen L, Walker D, Levine O: Economic Benefits during the Decade of Vaccines: The Cost-of-Illness Analysis. Health Affairs, 2011, June 30:1021-8.
Wijngaarden J, Dirks M, Huisman R, Niessen LW, Dippel D: Do centres with well-developed protocols, training and infrastructure have higher rates of thrombolysis for acute ischaemic stroke? QJM, Int Journal Medicine 2011.
Ekdom van L, Stenberg K, Scherpbier RW, Niessen LW: Global cost of child survival – estimates from country-level validation. Bulletin WHO 2011, 89 (4), 267-277.
Dirks M, Niessen LW, Wijngaarden J, Huijsman R, Koudstaal P, Dippel D: Promoting thrombolysis in actue ischaemic stroke - PRACTISE: a cluster-randomized controlled implementation trial. Stroke, 2011 May;42(5):1325-30.
Schouten L, Huelscher M, Everdingen J, Huijsman R, Niessen LW, Grol R. Short- and long-term effects of a quality improvement collaborative on diabetes management. Implement Sci. 2010 28;5:94.
Heijden vd A, Ortegon M, Niessen LW, Nijpels G, Dekker, JM. Prediction of coronary heart disease in a general, pre-diabetic and diabetic population during 10 years of follow-up: accuracy of the Framingham, SCORE and UKPDS risk functions - the Hoorn Study. Diabetes Care,2009 32 :2094-8.
Schouten L, Niessen LW, Pas vander J, Grol R, and Huelscher M: Cost-effectiveness of a quality improvement collaborative focusing on patients with diabetes. Med Care. 2010 48(10):884-91.
Baeten SA, Baltussen R, Uyl-de Groot CA, Bridges J, Niessen LW: Incorporating equity-efficiency interactions in cost-effectiveness analysis - three approaches applied to breast cancer control. Value in Health. 2010 13(5): 573-9.
Fairall F, Bachmann MO, Zwarenstein M, Bateman ED, Niessen LW et al. Cost effectiveness of educational outreach to primary care nurses to increase tuberculosis case detection and improve respiratory care: economic evaluation alongside a randomised trial. Trop Med Int Health. 2010 (3):277-86.
Cleveringa FGW, Welsing PMJ, Donk van den M, Gorter KJ, Niessen LW et al. Cost-effectiveness of the Diabetes Care Protocol, a multifaceted computerized decision support diabetes management intervention that reduces cardiovascular risk. Diabetes Care. 2010 33(2): 258-63.
Cobden DB, Niessen LW, Barr CE, Rutten F, Redekop WK. Relationships among self-management, patient perceptions of care, and health economic outcomes for decision-making and clinical practice in type 2 diabetes - systematic review. Value Health. 2010 13(1):138-47.
Wijngaarden J, Dirks M, Fabricotti I, Huijsman R, Niessen LW, Dippel D. Hospital rates of thrombolysis for acute ischaemic stroke; the influence of organizational culture. Stroke. 2009 40(10): 3390-2.
Niessen LW, Hove ten AC, Hilderink HH, Weber M, Mulholland K, Ezzati M. Comparative impact assessment of child pneumonia interventions. Bull WHO, 2009 87(6) 472-8.
