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ReviewInternational journal of health policy and management2021

Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Interventions for Priority Setting in the Health System: An Update From WHO CHOICE.

Melanie Y Bertram, Jeremy A Lauer, Karin Stenberg, Tessa Tan Torres Edejer

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Review in International journal of health policy and management, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 114 papers, 7 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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114citing papers in PubMed, 7 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.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

114 citing papers in PubMed, 7 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Melanie Y BertramDepartment of Health Systems Governance and Financing, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-7641-8943
Jeremy A LauerDepartment of Health Systems Governance and Financing, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-0652-0691
Karin StenbergDepartment of Health Systems Governance and Financing, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0002-5422-1752
Tessa Tan Torres EdejerDepartment of Health Systems Governance and Financing, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland.ORCID 0000-0003-1068-332X

Funding

World Health Organization 001
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The World Health Organization's (WHO's) Choosing Interventions that are Cost-Effective (CHOICE) programme has been a global leader in the field of economic evaluation, specifically cost-effectiveness analysis for almost 20 years. WHO-CHOICE takes a "generalized" approach to cost-effectiveness analysis that can be seen as a quantitative assessment of current and future efficiency within a health system. This supports priority setting processes, ensuring that health stewards know how to spend resources in order to achieve the highest health gain as one consideration in strategic planning. This approach is unique in the global health landscape. This paper provides an overview of the methodological approach, updates to analytic framework over the past 10 years, and the added value of the WHO-CHOICE approach in supporting decision makers as they aim to use limited health resources to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.

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Delivery of Health CareSustainable DevelopmentCost-Benefit AnalysisGlobal HealthHumansWorld Health OrganizationCost-Effectiveness AnalysisEconomic EvaluationHealth Benefit Package

Identifiers

PMID33619929
PMCPMC9278384

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