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March 01, 2004
Developments in economic evaluation in health care: a review of HEED
Author: Clive Pritchard
Publisher: Office for Health Economics
Price £7.50
Health care providers around the world are increasingly concerned with the use of economic evaluation in public policy decision making. As the application of economic criteria becomes more widespread, so sources of information on the cost-effectiveness of health care technologies become more important. One such source is HEED : the Health Economic Evaluations Database; it has already contributed to around a quarter of the first 75 technology appraisals completed by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE).
The briefing sets out the types of studies included on HEED and analyses of how they have changed over time, regarding types of evaluation, disease areas covered and study design, as well as key issues for studies using modelling methodologies. The briefing should be of interest to practitioners and consumers of economic evaluations.
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