Drummond M F
Health Policy. 1987 Jun;7(3):309-24. doi: 10.1016/0168-8510(87)90072-8.
In principle, economic evaluation provides a suitable framework for the assessment of the costs and benefits of health technologies. However, despite a rapid growth in the publication of cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis in health care, there is little evidence that economic evaluation has yet become part of an integrated approach to technology assessment. This paper, based on the findings of a European Community project on economic appraisal of health technology, discusses how the design and conduct of economic evaluations can be improved so as to increase their relevance to health care decision making, and how policies on the diffusion and use of health technology can be devised so as to make fuller use of the economic evaluations that are carried out.
原则上，经济评估为评估卫生技术的成本和效益提供了一个合适的框架。然而，尽管卫生保健领域成本效益分析和成本效益分析的出版物迅速增加，但几乎没有证据表明经济评估已成为技术评估综合方法的一部分。本文基于欧洲共同体一项关于卫生技术经济评估项目的研究结果，讨论了如何改进经济评估的设计和实施，以提高其与卫生保健决策的相关性，以及如何制定卫生技术推广和使用政策，以便更充分地利用所进行的经济评估。
