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Transferability indices for health economic evaluations: methods and applications

✍ Scribed by Fernando Antonanzas; Roberto Rodríguez-Ibeas; Carmelo Juárez; Florencia Hutter; Reyes Lorente; Mariola Pinillos

Publisher
John Wiley and Sons
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
143 KB
Volume
18
Category
Article
ISSN
1057-9230

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Abstract

In this paper, we have elaborated an index in two phases to measure the degree of transferability of the results of the economic evaluation of health technologies. In the first phase, we have considered the objective factors (critical and non‐critical) to derive a general transferability index, which can be used to measure this internal property of the studies of economic evaluation applied to health technologies. In the second phase, with a more specific index, we have measured the degree of applicability of the results of a given study to a different setting. Both indices have been combined (arithmetic and geometric mean) to obtain a global transferability index. We have applied the global index to a sample of 27 Spanish studies on infectious diseases. We have obtained an average value for the index of 0.54, quite far from the maximum theoretical value of 1. We also found that 11 studies lacked some critical factor and were directly deemed as not transferable. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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