Development of the European Healthcare and Social Cost Database (EU HCSCD) for use in economic evaluation of healthcare programs.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Costs are one of the critical factors for the transferability of the results in health technology assessment and economic evaluation. The objective is to develop a cost database at the European level to facilitate cross-border cost comparisons in different settings and explains the factors that lead to differences in healthcare costs in different countries, taking into account the differences between health systems and other factors.

Methodology

The core of the database is compounded of three main categories (primary resources, composite goods and services, and complex processes and interventions) organized into 13 subcategories. A number of elements providing as detailed information of unit cost as possible were identified in order to mitigate the problem of co

SUBMITTER: Espin J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8962458 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature