Performing Economic Evaluation of Integrated Care: Highway to Hell or Stairway to Heaven?
Health economists are increasingly interested in integrated care in order to support decision-makers to find cost-effective solutions able to tackle the threat that chronic diseases pose on population health and health and social care budgets. However, economic evaluation in integrated care is still...
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| author | Apostolos Tsiachristas K. Viktoria Stein Silvia Evers Maureen M.P.M.H. Rutten- van Mölken |
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| description | Health economists are increasingly interested in integrated care in order to support decision-makers to find cost-effective solutions able to tackle the threat that chronic diseases pose on population health and health and social care budgets. However, economic evaluation in integrated care is still in its early years, facing several difficulties. The aim of this paper is to describe the unique nature of integrated care as a topic for economic evaluation, explore the obstacles to perform economic evaluation, discuss methods and techniques that can be used to address them, and set the basis to develop a research agenda for health economics in integrated care. The paper joins the voices that call health economists to pay more attention to integrated care and argues that there should be no more time wasted for doing it. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e97f024fda694873a62494a38c6e24ca2022-12-22T01:06:10ZengUbiquity PressInternational Journal of Integrated Care1568-41562016-10-0116410.5334/ijic.24722128Performing Economic Evaluation of Integrated Care: Highway to Hell or Stairway to Heaven?Apostolos Tsiachristas0K. Viktoria Stein1Silvia Evers2Maureen M.P.M.H. Rutten- van Mölken3University of OxfordInternational Foundation for Integrated CareUniversity of MaastrichtErasmus University RotterdamHealth economists are increasingly interested in integrated care in order to support decision-makers to find cost-effective solutions able to tackle the threat that chronic diseases pose on population health and health and social care budgets. However, economic evaluation in integrated care is still in its early years, facing several difficulties. The aim of this paper is to describe the unique nature of integrated care as a topic for economic evaluation, explore the obstacles to perform economic evaluation, discuss methods and techniques that can be used to address them, and set the basis to develop a research agenda for health economics in integrated care. The paper joins the voices that call health economists to pay more attention to integrated care and argues that there should be no more time wasted for doing it.http://www.ijic.org/articles/2472health economicseconomic evaluationhealth technology assessmentintegrated carecomplex intervention |
| spellingShingle | Apostolos Tsiachristas K. Viktoria Stein Silvia Evers Maureen M.P.M.H. Rutten- van Mölken Performing Economic Evaluation of Integrated Care: Highway to Hell or Stairway to Heaven? International Journal of Integrated Care health economics economic evaluation health technology assessment integrated care complex intervention |
| title | Performing Economic Evaluation of Integrated Care: Highway to Hell or Stairway to Heaven? |
| title_full | Performing Economic Evaluation of Integrated Care: Highway to Hell or Stairway to Heaven? |
| title_fullStr | Performing Economic Evaluation of Integrated Care: Highway to Hell or Stairway to Heaven? |
| title_full_unstemmed | Performing Economic Evaluation of Integrated Care: Highway to Hell or Stairway to Heaven? |
| title_short | Performing Economic Evaluation of Integrated Care: Highway to Hell or Stairway to Heaven? |
| title_sort | performing economic evaluation of integrated care highway to hell or stairway to heaven |
| topic | health economics economic evaluation health technology assessment integrated care complex intervention |
| url | http://www.ijic.org/articles/2472 |
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