Research & theory
Performing Economic Evaluation of Integrated Care: Highway to Hell or Stairway to Heaven?
Authors:
- Apostolos TsiachristasEmail Apostolos Tsiachristas
- K. Viktoria Stein
- Silvia Evers
- Maureen M.P.M.H. Rutten- van Mölken
Abstract
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.
- Volume: 16
- Page/Article: 3
- DOI: 10.5334/ijic.2472
- Submitted on 26 Apr 2016
- Accepted on 26 Sep 2016
- Published on 19 Oct 2016
- Peer Reviewed