Using Expert Elicitation to Adjust Published Intervention Effects to Reflect the Local Context.

ABSTRACT: Background. Local health services make limited use of economic evaluation to inform decisions to fund new health service interventions. One barrier is the relevance of published intervention effects to the local setting, given these effects can strongly reflect the original evaluation context. Expert elicitation methods provide a structured approach to explicitly and transparently adjust published effect estimates, which can then be used in local-level economic evaluations to increase their local relevance. Expert elicitation was used to adjust published effect estimates for 2 interventions targeting the prevention of inpatient hypoglycemia. Methods. Elicitation was undertaken with 6 clinical experts. They were systematically presented with information regarding potential dif

SUBMITTER: Gray J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10812103 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan-Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature