Harmonization issues in unit costing of service use for multi-country, multi-sectoral health economic evaluations: a scoping review.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Valuation is a critical part of the costing process in health economic evaluations. However, an overview of specific issues relevant to the European context on harmonizing methodological requirements for the valuation of costs to be used in health economic evaluation is lacking. We aimed to inform the development of an international, harmonized and multi-sectoral costing framework, as sought in the European PECUNIA (ProgrammE in Costing, resource use measurement and outcome valuation for Use in multi-sectoral National and International health economic evaluAtions) project.

Methods

We conducted a scoping review (information extraction 2008-2021) to a) to demonstrate the degree of heterogeneity that currently exists in the literature regarding central terminology, b

SUBMITTER: Fischer C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9347135 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature