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Based on the Swedish 2005 survey, fundus images were estimated to be taken on an average every 8th year (Linden et?al. 2013). The frequencies of field testing and imaging were the same as reported in 83 patients in Turku, Finland, during 11?years of follow-up (Hagman 2012). When compared with a higher spending city in Finland during the same time period in 1994�C2006 (i.e. yearly VFs, images every 2?years, 28% higher medication costs, 46% higher testing and follow-up costs, 3 times more laser therapy and twice more surgery in Oulu than in Turku), the quality of life of patients between the two cities was not different. There was actually a statistically significant counter-intuitive difference in the early glaucoma group, that is, patients using more resources reported worse quality of life. Higher resource allocation as such may not always lead to measurable benefits to the patients or society in terms of less glaucoma-induced http://www.selleckchem.com/products/ch5424802.html visual disability and/or better quality of life. Registry data in 2002�C2007 of Olsen et?al. (2013) in this issue of Acta reported that drug costs in Denmark accounted for 57% of total costs, which is smaller compared with that of up to 73% in http://www.selleckchem.com/products/VX-770.html Finland in 2001�C2006 (Hagman 2012). Although the populations in Denmark and Finland are the same (5.4 million inhabitants) as well as the incidence of new treated patients (Tuulonen et?al. 2009; Olsen et?al. 2013), Finland had 18 000 more treated patients in 2007 (32%) compared with the estimate of 56 000 presented for Denmark (Finnish Statistics on medicines 2007, Olsen et?al. 2013). The fact that if and when more OHT patients are treated, both treatment and tests will have an effect on total and per-patient costs. http://www.selleck.cn/products/Verteporfin(Visudyne).html It is a long-known reality that very different conclusions may result from the same evidence (Tuulonen 2005). Instead of treating different patients differently (as recommended by Heijl 2013), based also on systematic evaluation of literature, recent Dutch simulation model suggested that treating all OHT patients with IOP > 21 mmHg, would be cost saving compared with watchful waiting (van Gestel 2012) �C even if 43% of the simulated untreated OHT patients never converted to glaucoma in their entire lifetime. In addition, in lieu of ��guessing�� the initial target pressure and redefining it according to rate of progression in manifest glaucoma, their model suggested to aim at a standard IOP?