IHE - Sixten Borg

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Sixten Borg

M.Sc. Mathematics | Research Manager

Work areas

Sixten Borg has been a Senior Project Manager at IHE from 2003 to 2009, and returned to IHE in February 2010. He is a statistician and has been working with health economics, modelling and simulation methods since 1993.

Main activities:

Economic evaluation of pharmaceuticals and medical technology
Development of disease models and health economic models
Statistical methods within health economics

Selected publications

Lökk J, Borg S, Svensson J, Persson U & Ljunggren G
Drug and treatment costs in Parkinson´s disease patients in Sweden
Acta Neurologica Scandinavica. In press

Borg S, Persson U, Jess T, Thompsen O, Ljung T, Riis L & Munkholm P.A
Maximum likelihood estimator of a Markov model for disease activity in Crohn´s disease and ulcerative colitis for annually aggregated partial observations
Medical Decision Making, 2010 Jan-Feb; 30(1): 132-142

Borg S, Glenngård AH, Österborg A & Persson U
The cost-effectiveness of treatment with erythropoietin compared to red blood cell transfusions for patients with chemotherapy induced anaemia: A Markov model
Acta Oncologica 2008; 47(6):1009-1017

Gerdtham UG, Andersson LF, Ericsson A, Borg S, Jansson SA, Rönmark E & Lundbäck B
Factors affecting chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)-related costs: a multivariate analysis of a Swedish COPD cohort
The European Journal for Health Economics 2009 May; 10(2): 217-226

Borg S, Persson U, Ödegaard K, Berglund G, Nilsson J-Å, Nilsson PM, Obesity, Survival, and Hospital Costs-Findings from a Screening Project in Sweden, Value in Health, 8(5):562–571, 2005.

Borg S, Ericsson Å, Wedzicha J, Gulsvik A, Lundbäck B, Donaldson GC & Sullivan SD. A Computer Simulation Model of the Natural History and Economic Impact of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Value Health. 2004 Mar-Apr;7(2):153-67.