Resource Pack: Economic Evaluation Guidelines
2018
This resource pack includes guidelines for health economic evaluation - methods designed to identify, measure and value the incremental resources used, relative to benefits gained, of alternative interventions or policies - with the goal of improving resource allocation decisions by addressing efficiency in healthcare. The selected examples focus predominantly on the conduct of cost-effectiveness analysis.
Over the past three decades, cost-effectiveness analysis has gained increasing attention from decision makers in both resource-rich and resource-poor countries. In 1996, the Panel on Cost-effectiveness in Health and Medicine convened by the United States Public Health Service (the US Panel) identified a need to improve comparability and quality in the conduct and reporting of cost effectiveness analyses (CEA), and recommended the use of a “reference case”. Since then, many other entities including the WHO and the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) in the UK have introduced the concept of a ‘reference case’ to improve the use of economic evaluations in informing decisions.
Most recently, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded an effort to produce a reference case for CEA aimed at policies that mainly focus on low- and middle-income countries, and the second Panel on Cost-effectiveness in Health and Medicine updated its original recommendations.
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Resource Pack: Economic Evaluation Guidelines. Center for Health Decision Science, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 2018. http://repository.chds.hsph.harvard.edu/repository/collection/resource-pack-economic-evaluation-guidelines