Costing evidence for health care decision-making in Austria: A systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With rising healthcare costs comes an increasing demand for evidence-informed resource allocation using economic evaluations worldwide. Furthermore, standardization of costing and reporting methods both at international and national levels are imperative to make economic evaluations a valid tool for decision-making. The aim of this review is to assess the availability and consistency of costing evidence that could be used for decision-making in Austria. It describes systematically the current economic evaluation and costing studies landscape focusing on the applied costing methods and their reporting standards. Findings are discussed in terms of their likely impacts on evidence-based decision-making and potential suggestions for areas of development.

Methods

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SUBMITTER: Mayer S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5555669 | biostudies-literature | 2017

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature