A novel way to integrate economic information into clinical practice guidelines.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Clinical guidelines are widely used to support clinical decision making, so they could also provide economic information about medical interventions to promote cost-conscious health care. We developed a new way to integrate economic information into the Finnish Current Care Guidelines.

Methods

Our development team consisted of clinical guideline specialists and health economists. We first looked at integration of economic information in clinical guidelines of other countries. Our key principle was that economic information should be integrated only to mutually exclusive medical interventions where the extensive choice of one the options will yield a significant cost differences on the national level. For the comparative effectiveness information of the interventio

SUBMITTER: Ahonen JE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11568567 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature