An important issue in economic evaluations is determining whether all relevant impacts are
considered, given the perspective chosen for the analysis. Acknowledging that patients are …

Background A child's health condition affects family members' health and well-being.
However, pediatric cost-utility analysis (CUA) commonly ignores these family spillover …

Purpose The complexity and severity of rare genetic conditions pose substantial burden to
families. While the importance of spillovers on carers' health in resource allocation decisions …

Carer quality of life is increasingly considered alongside patient quality of life in economic
evaluation. Important questions remain about how to value carer and patient quality of life …

Background Omission of family and caregiver health spillovers from the economic
evaluation of healthcare interventions remains common practice. When reported, a high …

Including health outcomes for carers as well as patients in economic evaluations can
change the results and conclusions of the analysis. Whilst in many disease areas there can …

Given population ageing and the emphasis on in-home care, more working-age adults are
facing the demands of providing unpaid care to the elderly with potential implications for …

Background: Informal carers play a key supportive role for patients with chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease. However, caring can have a considerable impact on health and …

Patient and public involvement (PPI) can be used in methods research, as well as applied
research, in health economics. However, methods research goals may seem quite abstract …

Purpose Identify aspects of quality of life (QoL) important to Australian informal carers and
explore how well the Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit for Carers, Care-related Quality of …