Introduction: Health-care waste can threaten the health of humans and environment due to dangerous, toxic and pathogenic agents. This study was conducted to investigate the status of disinfection equipment in Tehran hospitals as well as their health and economic evaluation in 2016. Materials and Methods: In this research, 27 hospitals in Tehran that equipped with disinfection equipment were se...

This article probes the contrasting traditions of economics and evaluation and shows that intensified collaboration would benefit both professions. While evaluators have long been examining the impact of economic advice on public policy, economists have neglected evaluation both as a platform for testing economic policy hypotheses and as a topic for economic research in its own right. To encour...

The workshop will start with an introduction by Dr. H. Vondeling of some of the key concepts and basic typology of economic evaluation studies, which will be illustrated by means of economic evaluations of integrated care programmes. This is followed by a presentation by Dr. S. Evers on a trend analysis of economic evaluation studies in integrated care. An analysis of the numbers and specific f...

AIMS To identify different types of models used in economic evaluations of smoking cessation, analyse the quality of the included models examining their attributes and ascertain their transferability to a new context. METHODS A systematic review of the literature on the economic evaluation of smoking cessation interventions published between 1996 and April 2015, identified via Medline, EMBASE...

OBJECTIVE This paper describes the main types of economic evaluation techniques. METHOD To examine the strengths and limitations of different types of economic evaluations, we used a hypothetical example to review the reasoning underlying each method and to illustrate when it is appropriate to use each method. RESULTS The choice of economic evaluation method reflects a decision about what s...

In recent years, evidence has emerged regarding the effectiveness of osteopathic manipulative treatments (OMT). Despite growing evidence in this field, there is need for appropriate research designs that effectively reflect the person-centred system of care promoted in osteopathy and provide data which can inform policy decisions within the healthcare system. The purpose of this systematic revi...

BACKGROUND General recommendations for a reference case for economic studies in rheumatic diseases were published in 2002 in an initiative to improve the comparability of cost-effectiveness studies in the field. Since then, economic evaluations in osteoarthritis (OA) continue to show considerable heterogeneity in methodological approach. OBJECTIVES To develop a reference case specific for eco...

This paper considers the role of economic evaluation of helath care technologies in Australia and its relationship to policy and program decisions. Economid evaluation in relation to policy has been best developed in relation to drug subsidy decisions under the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme. A key to this successful use of economic analysis has been the availability of a well developed framewo...

The first article1 in this two-part series on the economic evaluation of health care interventions examined the key concepts of economic evaluation in health care, and the methodological issues pertaining to identification, measurement and evaluation of costs and benefits. The aim of this article is to examine how the costs and benefits previously identified can be brought together within the f...