Quantifying Family Spillover Effects in Economic Evaluations: Measurement and Valuation of Informal Care Time.

ABSTRACT: Spillover effects on the welfare of family members may refer to caregiver health effects, informal care time costs, or both. This review focuses on methods that have been used to measure and value informal care time and makes suggestions for their appropriate use in cost-of-illness and cost-effectiveness analyses. It highlights the importance of methods to value informal care time that are independent of caregiver health effects in order to minimize double counting of spillover effects. Although the concept of including caregiver time costs in economic evaluations is not new, relatively few societal perspective cost-effectiveness analyses have included informal care, with the exception of dementia. This is due in part to challenges in measuring and valuing time costs. Analysts can collect

SUBMITTER: Grosse SD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6529092 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature