Article,
The principles of cost-effectiveness analysis and their application
Journal of Vascular Surgery, 37 (1): 226-234 (2003)
Abstract
The current healthcare environment requires the evaluation of both
the costs and benefits of alternative interventions for a given clinical
problem. Given the increased interest in the economic evaluation
of healthcare interventions, this article briefly defines various
forms of economic evaluations and describes some useful steps for
conducting appraisals of cost-effectiveness analyses. Studies of
competing methods of treatment of abdominal aortic aneurysms greater
than 5 cm are used as a clinical example of interest to the readers
of this journal. Rather than actually conducting such an analysis
with existing data, we describe the principles for conducting or
reviewing an economic analysis with factitious data
Tags
- abdominal
- aortic-aneurysms
- cost-effectiveness
- economic-analysis
- guidelines
- health
- journals
- open
- repair
- surgical
