PharmacoEconomic News Special Issue ¥ June 1999 CO N F E R E N C E H I G H L I G H T S The Evidence for Evidence Getting Value for Money in Economic Evaluations of Health and Health Care O n April 29-30, 1999, the Institute of Health Economics hosted its first conference, The Evidence for Evidence – Getting Value for Money in Economic Evaluations of Health and Health Care. The conference was or...

BACKGROUND The application of conjoint analysis (including discrete-choice experiments and other multiattribute stated-preference methods) in health has increased rapidly over the past decade. A wider acceptance of these methods is limited by an absence of consensus-based methodological standards. OBJECTIVE The International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR) Good Res...

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The past three decades have seen a rapid growth in the discipline of health economics, particularly in the area of economic evaluation of health care interventions. The aim of this article is to provide an introduction to the concepts of economic evaluation in health care, and the methodological issues pertaining to the identification, measurement and valuation of costs and benefits. In a subse...

This commentary discusses how health economic techniques can usefully be applied to inform clinical and policy decision making in the aged care sector from two perspectives: firstly, in relation to the measurement and valuation of the costs and benefits of new and existing health care technologies and modes of aged care service delivery and secondly, in relation to the facilitation of autonomy ...

Over the past decade, market forces have increasingly reshaped the American health care system. Public and private payers have hired for-profit managed care organizations to approve the utilization of health care services. Purchasers and their employees select among competing health plans. Health care facilities and systems vie for contracts to treat populations of patients. The infusion of mar...

BACKGROUND Assessing the impact of cost sharing on healthcare utilization is a critical issue in health economics and health policy. It may affect the utilization of different services, but is yet to be well understood. OBJECTIVE This paper investigates the effects of reducing cost sharing for outpatient services on hospital admissions by exploring a subsidy policy for children's outpatient s...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS The total health care cost for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) patients has constantly grown in recent years. To date, there is no information about how this trend will behave over the next few years. The aim of the present study is to define a pharmacoeconomic model for the forecast of the costs of a group of chronically treated patients followed over the period 2004-200...