Step-by-Step Guideline for Disease-Specific Costing Studies in LMIC
2014
Disease-specific costing studies can be used as input into cost-effectiveness analyses and provide important information for efficient resource allocation. This paper provides a step-by-step guideline for conducting disease-specific costing studies in LMICs where data availability is limited and illustrates how the guideline was applied in a costing study of cardiovascular disease prevention care in rural Nigeria.
The step-by-step guideline provides practical recommendations on methods and data requirements for six sequential steps: 1) definition of the study perspective, 2) characterization of the unit of analysis, 3) identification of cost items, 4) measurement of cost items, 5) valuation of cost items, and 6) uncertainty analyses. The authors discuss the tradeoffs between the accuracy of estimates and data availability constraints at each step and illustrate how a mixed methodology of accurate bottom-up micro-costing and more feasible approaches can be used to make optimal use of all available data.
Step-by-Step Guideline for Disease-Specific Costing Studies in LMIC
Source:
Hendriks ME, Kundu P, Boers AC et al. Step-by-Step Guideline for Disease-Specific Costing Studies in Low- and Middle-Income Countries: A Mixed Methodology. Global Health Action 2014; 7 (1). https://doi.org/10.3402/gha.v7.23573