Cost-benefit Analysis of Cochlear Implants: A Societal Perspective.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

While the costs and outcomes of cochlear implantation (CI) have been widely assessed, most of these analyses were solely performed from the perspective of healthcare costs. This study assesses the costs and benefits of CI in the Netherlands from a broader societal perspective, including health outcomes, healthcare cost, educational cost, and productivity losses and gains.

Design

The cost and benefits of CI were analyzed in this cost-benefit analysis, in which a monetary value is put on both the resources needed and the outcomes of CI. The costs and benefits were analyzed by prototypical instances of three groups, representing the majority of cochlear implant patients: prelingually deaf children implanted at the age of 1, adults with progressive profound hearing lo

SUBMITTER: Neve OM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8378541 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep/Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature