Health Opportunity Costs: Assessing the Implications of Uncertainty Using Elicitation Methods with Experts.

ABSTRACT: Well-established methods of economic evaluation are used in many countries to inform decisions about the funding of new medical interventions. To guide such decisions, it is important to consider what health gains would be expected from the same level of investment elsewhere in the health care system. Recent research in the United Kingdom has evaluated the evidence available and the methods required to estimate the health effects of changes in health care expenditure within the National Health Service. Because of the absence of sufficiently broad-ranging data, assumptions were required in the previously mentioned work to estimate health effects in terms of a broader measure of health (quality-adjusted life-years), which is more relevant for policy. These assumptions constitute important so

SUBMITTER: Soares MO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7509606 | biostudies-literature | 2020 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature