Estimating comparable English healthcare costs for multiple diseases and unrelated future costs for use in health and public health economic modelling.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Healthcare interventions, and particularly those in public health may affect multiple diseases and significantly prolong life. No consensus currently exists for how to estimate comparable healthcare costs across multiple diseases for use in health and public health cost-effectiveness models. We aim to describe a method for estimating comparable disease specific English healthcare costs as well as future healthcare costs from diseases unrelated to those modelled.

Methods

We use routine national datasets including programme budgeting data and cost curves from NHS England to estimate annual per person costs for diseases included in the PRIMEtime model as well as age and sex specific costs due to unrelated diseases.

Results

The 2013/14 annual cost to NHS Englan

SUBMITTER: Briggs ADM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5967835 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature