Performing Economic Evaluation of Integrated Care: Highway to Hell or Stairway to Heaven?
Performing Economic Evaluation of Integrated Care: Highway to Hell or Stairway to Heaven?
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DOI：
10.5334/ijic.2472
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发表时间：
2016-10-01
影响因子：
2.4
通讯作者：
Rutten-van Molken, Maureen
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作者：
Tsiachristas, Apostolos;Stein, K. Viktoria;Rutten-van Molken, Maureen
健康经济学家对综合护理越来越感兴趣，以支持决策者找到具有成本效益的解决方案，以应对慢性病对人口健康以及健康和社会护理预算构成的威胁。然而，综合护理的经济评估仍处于早期阶段，面临着一些困难。本文的目的是描述综合护理作为经济评估主题的独特性质，探讨进行经济评估的障碍，讨论可用于解决这些问题的方法和技术，并为制定综合护理中卫生经济学的研究议程奠定基础。该论文加入了呼吁健康经济学家更多关注综合护理的声音，并认为不应该再浪费时间来做这件事。
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.