Health economic evaluation in orthotics and prosthetics: a systematic review protocol.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Health economic evaluations are essential to support health care policy and investment decisions. To date, health economic evaluations in orthotics and prosthetics have focused on discrete components of an orthosis/prosthesis (e.g. a microprocessor controlled prosthetic knee joint) rather than the broader service provided by orthotist/prosthetists. As such, the contribution to orthotic/prosthetic policy and investment decisions is unclear. Whilst there are opportunities to conduct more informative health economic evaluations that describe the costs and benefits of the orthotic/prosthetic service, it is important that prospective research is informed by a critical review of the method design challenges and an understanding of how this research can be improved. The aim of

SUBMITTER: Clarke L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6595622 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature