Open AccessPosted Content
Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes
Reads0
Chats0
TLDR
The fourth edition of the Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes as mentioned in this paper has been thoroughly revised and updated, making it essential reading for anyone commissioning, undertaking, or using economic evaluations in health care, including health service professionals, health economists, and health care decision makers.Abstract:
The purpose of economic evaluation is to inform decisions intended to improve healthcare. The new edition of Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes equips the reader with the necessary tools and understanding required to undertake evaluations by providing an outline of key principles and a 'tool kit' based on the authors' own experiences of undertaking economic evaluations. Building on the strength of the previous edition, the accessible writing style ensures the text is key reading for the non-expert reader, as no prior knowledge of economics is required. The book employs a critical appraisal framework, which is useful both to researchers conducting studies and to decision-makers assessing them. Practical examples are provided throughout to aid learning and understanding. The book discusses the analytical and policy challenges that face health systems in seeking to allocate resources efficiently and fairly. New chapters include 'Principles of economic evaluation' and 'Making decisions in healthcare' which introduces the reader to core issues and questions about resource allocation, and provides an understanding of the fundamental principles which guide decision making. A key part of evidence-based decision making is the analysis of all the relevant evidence to make informed decisions and policy. The new chapter 'Identifying, synthesising and analysing evidence' highlights the importance of systematic review, and how and why these methods are used. As methods of analysis continue to develop, the chapter on 'Characterising, reporting and interpreting uncertainty' introduces the reader to recent methods of analysis and why characterizing uncertainty matters for health care decisions. The fourth edition of Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes has been thoroughly revised and updated, making it essential reading for anyone commissioning, undertaking, or using economic evaluations in health care, including health service professionals, health economists, and health care decision makers.read more
Citations
More filters
Journal ArticleDOI
Genetic testing and common disorders in a public health framework: how to assess relevance and possibilities Background Document to the ESHG recommendations on genetic testing and common disorders
Frauke Becker,Carla G. van El,Dolores Ibarreta,Eleni Zika,Stuart Hogarth,Pascal Borry,Pascal Borry,Anne Cambon-Thomsen,Jean Jacques Cassiman,Gerry Evers-Kiebooms,Shirley Hodgson,A. Cecile J.W. Janssens,Helena Kääriäinen,Michael Krawczak,Ulf Kristoffersson,Jan Lubinski,Christine Patch,Victor B. Penchaszadeh,Andy Read,Wolf Rogowski,Jorge Sequeiros,Lisbeth Tranebjærg,Irene M. van Langen,Helen Wallace,Ron Zimmern,Joerg Schmidtke,Martina C. Cornel +26 more
TL;DR: Genetic testing and common disorders in a public health framework: how to assess relevance and possibilities as mentioned in this paper, where the authors assess relevance, possibilities, relevance, and relevance of common disorders.
Journal ArticleDOI
Treatment Pathways, Resource Use, and Costs of Endovascular Coiling Versus Surgical Clipping After aSAH
Jane Wolstenholme,Oliver Rivero-Arias,Alastair Gray,Andrew J. Molyneux,Richard S. C. Kerr,Julia A. Yarnold,Mary Sneade +6 more
TL;DR: Endovascular patients had higher costs than neurosurgical patients for the initial procedure, for the number and length of stay of subsequent procedures, and for follow-up angiograms, while no significant difference in costs between the endovascular and neurosurgery groups existed at 12- or 24-month follow up.
Journal ArticleDOI
Practice and potential of economic evaluation of workplace-based interventions for occupational health and safety.
TL;DR: There is a need for economic expertise in the multidisciplinary research teams evaluating workplace-based occupational health and safety interventions, and more than half of these studies considered only the consequences in monetary terms, rather than both the costs and consequences associated with the intervention.
Journal ArticleDOI
Cost variations in ambulatory and home-based palliative care
Denise N. Guerriere,Brandon Zagorski,Konrad Fassbender,Lisa Masucci,Lawrence Librach,Peter C. Coyte +5 more
TL;DR: Assessing the societal costs of home-based palliative care in Canada to comprehensively assess the socio-demographic and clinical factors that account for variations in costs over the course of the palliatives trajectory may improve access to care.
Journal ArticleDOI
Absolute or relative effects?: Arm-based synthesis of trial data
Sofia Dias,A E Ades +1 more
TL;DR: The key differences between armand contrast-based meta-analysis are outlined to make clear the true extent of the implications of the claims being made, and it is argued that contrast based models are to be preferred on both theoretical and practical grounds.