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ReviewJournal of medical Internet research2015

How to Measure Costs and Benefits of eHealth Interventions: An Overview of Methods and Frameworks.

Trine Strand Bergmo

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Review in Journal of medical Internet research, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 78 papers, 9 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

78 citing papers in PubMed, 9 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  3. Analytical Frameworks and Outcome Measures in Economic Evaluations of Digital Health Interventions: A Methodological Systematic Review.Medical decision making : an international journal of the Society for Medical Decision Making · 2023
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  7. Hip protectors are cost-effective in the prevention of hip fractures in patients with high fracture risk.Osteoporosis international : a journal established as result of cooperation between the European Foundation for Osteoporosis and the National Osteoporosis Foundation of the USA · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author.

Trine Strand BergmoNorwegian Centre for Integrated Care and Telemedicine, University Hospital of North Norway, Tromsoe, Norway. trine.bergmo@telemed.no.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9580-7688

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Information on the costs and benefits of eHealth interventions is needed, not only to document value for money and to support decision making in the field, but also to form the basis for developing business models and to facilitate payment systems to support large-scale services. In the absence of solid evidence of its effects, key decision makers may doubt the effectiveness, which, in turn, limits investment in, and the long-term integration of, eHealth services. However, it is not realistic to conduct economic evaluations of all eHealth applications and services in all situations, so we need to be able to generalize from those we do conduct. This implies that we have to select the most appropriate methodology and data collection strategy in order to increase the transferability across evaluations. This paper aims to contribute to the understanding of how to apply economic evaluation methodology in the eHealth field. It provides a brief overview of basic health economics principles and frameworks and discusses some methodological issues and challenges in conducting cost-effectiveness analysis of eHealth interventions. Issues regarding the identification, measurement, and valuation of costs and benefits are outlined. Furthermore, this work describes the established techniques of combining costs and benefits, presents the decision rules for identifying the preferred option, and outlines approaches to data collection strategies. Issues related to transferability and complexity are also discussed.

Indexed as

Cost-Benefit AnalysisData CollectionDecision MakingHumansQuality-Adjusted Life YearsTelemedicinecost-benefit analysiscost-effectiveness analysiscost-utility analysiseconomic evaluationeHealthhealth economicsquality-adjusted life years (QALYs)telehealthtelemedicinetelemonitoring

Identifiers

PMID26552360
PMCPMC4642791

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