Economic Evaluation of Healthcare Programmes

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Department of Biomedical Technology

Synopsis:

The course is related to the course Evaluation of Health Technologies. During the semester, the student will learn in detail about specific types of analyses (cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-benefit analysis, cost-benefit analysis).

Requirements:

Mandatory attendance at seminars, a maximum of two absences during the semester are allowed. The course is completed with a graded credit. The evaluation will be based on the final test. In total, the student has the opportunity to obtain 100 points, a minimum of 50 points is required to complete the course. Evaluation according to the ECTS scale.

Syllabus of lectures:

Introduction to economic analysis in health care. Credit requirements. Definition of central terms and concepts.

Theoretical foundations of cost-effectiveness analysis in health care and medicine - critical evaluation of economic analyses.

Evaluation perspectives and associated costs, methods of calculating direct and indirect costs. Cost analysis.

Valuation of health benefits, QALYs, DALYs.

Budget Impact Analysis (BIA).

Overview of basic cost-effectiveness evaluation methods, international recommendations.

Cost-effectiveness analysis, design, structure, approaches.

Multi-criteria decision making - overview of methods, sequential weighting, method of agreement and disagreement.

Discounting, practical recommendations and calculations.

Decision models in cost analysis.

Uncertainties in cost-effectiveness analysis, sensitivity analysis.

Summary and current trends in economic analysis.

Syllabus of tutorials:

Introduction to economic analysis in healthcare, detailed demonstration of cost-effectiveness analysis.

Critical evaluation of economic analyses.

Structure of cost analyses - perspective, comparator.

Data collection and calculation of direct and indirect costs.

Quality of life assessment - calculation of QALY, LYG, DALY.

Comparison of cost analyses and their input and output data.

CEA - practical calculation.

Multicriteria decision making - AHP, CDA - concrete examples.

Development and calculation of cost minimization analysis (CMA) and cost-impact analysis (CCA).

Cost-effectiveness modelling.

Sensitivity analysis - one and two-way sensitivity analysis.

Sensitivity analyses - probabilistic sensitivity analysis.

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Study materials:

[1]HUNINK, M. G. Myriam. Decision making in health and medicine: integrating evidence and values. Second edition. Cambridge, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-1-107-69047-9.

[2]NEUMANN, Peter J., ed. et al. Cost-effectiveness in health and medicine. Second edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017. xxxiii, 496 stran. ISBN 978-0-19-049293-9.

[3]DRUMMOND, Michael et al. Methods for the economic evaluation of health care programmes. Fourth edition. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015. xiii, 445 stran. ISBN 978-0-19-966588-4.

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Further information:

No time-table has been prepared for this course

The course is a part of the following study plans:

• Systematic Integration of Prosesses of Healthcare (compulsory elective course)