作者
Kevin Schulman, Jennifer Burke, Michael Drummond, Linda Davies, Per Carlsson, Jans Gruger, Anthony Harris, Carlo Lucioni, Ramon Gisbert, Ted Llana, Eric Tom, Bernard Bloom, Richard Willke, Henry Glick
发表日期
1998/11
期刊
Health Economics
卷号
7
期号
7
页码范围
629-638
出版商
Wiley Subscription Services, Inc., A Wiley Company
简介
We present the results of a multinational resource costing study for a prospective economic evaluation of a new medical technology for treatment of subarachnoid hemorrhage within a clinical trial. The study describes a framework for the collection and analysis of international resource cost data that can contribute to a consistent and accurate intercountry estimation of cost. Of the 15 countries that participated in the clinical trial, we collected cost information in the following seven: Australia, France, Germany, the UK, Italy, Spain, and Sweden. The collection of cost data in these countries was structured through the use of worksheets to provide accurate and efficient cost reporting. We converted total average costs to average variable costs and then aggregated the data to develop study unit costs. When unit costs were unavailable, we developed an index table, based on a market‐basket approach, to estimate unit …
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