Estimating the Cost-Effectiveness of Implementation: Is Sufficient Evidence Available?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Timely implementation of recommended interventions can provide health benefits to patients and cost savings to the health service provider. Effective approaches to increase the implementation of guidance are needed. Since investment in activities that improve implementation competes for funding against other health generating interventions, it should be assessed in term of its costs and benefits.

Objective

In 2010, the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence released a clinical guideline recommending natriuretic peptide (NP) testing in patients with suspected heart failure. However, its implementation in practice was variable across the National Health Service in England. This study demonstrates the use of multi-period analysis together with diffusion cu

SUBMITTER: Whyte S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4823278 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Mar-Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature