Current status of cost utility analyses in total joint arthroplasty: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Total joint arthroplasty (TJA), although considered to be highly beneficial, is associated with substantial costs to the US healthcare system. Cost utility analysis has become an increasingly important means to objectively evaluate the value of a healthcare intervention from the perspective of both extending the quantity and improving the quality of life. Relatively little is known about the overall cost utility analysis evidence base in TJA.

Questions/purposes

The goals of this review were to (1) determine the cost utility of TJA interventions; (2) critically assess the quality of published US-based cost utility analyses using the Quality of Health Economic Studies instrument; and (3) determine what characteristics were common among studies receiving a high quali

SUBMITTER: Nwachukwu BU 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4385366 | biostudies-literature | 2015 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature