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ArticleThe European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care2013

Quantifying short run cost-effectiveness during a gradual implementation process.

Gijs van de Wetering, Willem H Woertman, Andre L Verbeek, Mireille J Broeders, Eddy M M Adang

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Article in The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  2. Quantifying the Impact of Capacity Constraints in Economic Evaluations: An Application in Precision Medicine.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2022
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  4. Implementing Interventions with Varying Marginal Cost-Effectiveness: An Application in Precision Medicine.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2020
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Gijs van de WeteringDepartment of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and HTA, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB, Nijmegen, The Netherlands, g.vandewetering@ebh.umcn.nl.
Willem H Woertman
Andre L Verbeek
Mireille J Broeders
Eddy M M Adang

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This paper examines the short run inefficiencies that arise during gradual implementation of a new cost-effective technology in healthcare. These inefficiencies arise when health gains associated with the new technology cannot be obtained immediately because the new technology does not yet supply all patients, and when there is overcapacity for the old technology in the short run because the supply of care is divided among two mutually exclusive technologies. Such efficiency losses are not taken into account in standard textbook cost-effectiveness analysis in which a steady state is presented where costs and effects are assumed to be unchanging over time. A model is constructed to quantify such short run inefficiencies as well as to inform the decision maker about the optimal implementation pattern for the new technology. The model operates by integrating the incremental net benefit equations for both the period of co-existence of mutually exclusive technologies and the period after complete substitution of the old technology. It takes into account the rate of implementation of the new technology, depreciation of capital of the old technology as well as the demand curves for both technologies. The model is applied to the real world case of converting from screen film to digital mammography in the Netherlands.

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Models, EconomicCost-Benefit AnalysisMammographyTechnology Assessment, Biomedical

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