Preparing early economic evaluations for the development and management of health service interventions.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

We draw from the Health Technology Assessment (HTA) literature to propose how hospitals and local health networks can prepare the key components of early economic evaluations to support the development and management of health service interventions.

Methods

Using the case example of a proposed intervention for older people in the Emergency Department (ED), a conceptual logic model of a new health service intervention is articulated to inform the structuring and population of a decision-analytic model using observed data on the existing care comparator and structured elicitation exercise of initial stakeholder expectations of intervention effects.

Results

The elicited patient pathway probabilities and lengths of stay quantities profile which of the existing

SUBMITTER: Partington A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11563182 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature