Contingent Valuation Studies in Orthopaedic Surgery: A Health Economic Review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

A greater emphasis on providing high-value orthopaedic interventions has resulted in increased health economic reporting. The contingent-valuation method (CVM) is used to determine consumer valuation of the benefits provided by healthcare interventions. CVM is an important value-based health economic tool that is underutilized in orthopaedic surgery.

Questions/purposes

The purpose of this study was to (1) identify previously published CVM studies in the orthopaedic literature, (2) assess the methodologies used for CVM research, and (3) understand how CVM has been used in the orthopaedic cost-benefit analysis framework.

Methods

A systematic review of the literature using the MEDLINE database was performed to compile CVM studies. Search terms incorporated the

SUBMITTER: Nwachukwu BU 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6148581 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature