Trends and Opportunities in Health Economic Evaluations of Prosthetic Care Innovations.

ABSTRACT: Overcoming obstacles to prosthetic fittings requires frequent tryouts of sockets and components. Repetitions of interventions are upsetting for users and place substantial economic burden on healthcare systems. Encouraging prosthetic care innovations capable of alleviating clinical and financial shortcomings of socket-based solutions is essential. Nonetheless, evidence of socio-economic benefits of an innovation are required to facilitate access to markets. Unfortunately, complex decisions must be made when allocating resources toward the most relevant health economic evaluation (HEE) at a given stage of development of an innovation. This paper first, aimed to show the importance and challenges of HEEs of intervention facilitating prosthetic fittings. Next, the main trends in HEEs at vario

SUBMITTER: Frossard L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10443521 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature