Systematic review of economic evaluations of smoking cessation: standardizing the cost-effectiveness
| Autor: | E. T. Ronckers, Wim Groot, A.J.H.A. Ament |
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| Rok vydání: | 2005 |
| Předmět: |
Standardization
biology Cost effectiveness business.industry 030503 health policy & services Health Policy medicine.medical_treatment Cost-Benefit Analysis Psychological intervention Guidelines as Topic biology.organism_classification 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Smok Environmental health Societal perspective Medicine Smoking cessation Humans Smoking Cessation 030212 general & internal medicine 0305 other medical science business health care economics and organizations |
| Zdroj: | Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making. 25(4) |
| ISSN: | 0272-989X |
| Popis: | Objectives . This study was performed to render cost-effectiveness studies on smoking cessation therapies, utilized until now, more comparable and more useful for medical decision making. Methods . The cost-effectiveness ratios reported by the studies were recalculated using a societal perspective and guidelines for economic evaluation. Results . The costs of individual interventions generally increased as a result of the standardization procedure, whereas the effect size decreased. This resulted in increases in the cost-effectiveness ratios for individual studies ranging from 120% to 5600%. Conclusions . The variation between studies in the percentage increase in cost-effectiveness ratios is huge. This means that not following guidelines when calculating cost-effectiveness ratios can result in large errors. Despite the fact that the standardized cost-effectiveness ratios of smoking interventions were higher than the unstandardized cost-effectiveness ratios, interventions aimed at reducing the prevalence of smoking are cost-effective. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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