Research Centre for Pharmaceutical Care and Pharmaco-economics, Faculty of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2009 Dec;6(12):2950-66. doi: 10.3390/ijerph6122950. Epub 2009 Nov 27.
This review article aims to provide an introduction to the methodology of health economic assessment of a health technology. Attention is paid to defining the fundamental concepts and terms that are relevant to health economic assessments. The article describes the methodology underlying a cost study (identification, measurement and valuation of resource use, calculation of costs), an economic evaluation (type of economic evaluation, the cost-effectiveness plane, trial- and model-based economic evaluation, discounting, sensitivity analysis, incremental analysis), and a budget impact analysis. Key references are provided for those readers who wish a more advanced understanding of health economic assessments.
这篇综述文章旨在介绍卫生技术健康经济评估的方法学。本文注重于定义与健康经济评估相关的基本概念和术语。文章描述了成本研究（资源利用的识别、测量和评估，成本的计算）、经济评估（经济评估的类型、成本效果平面、基于试验和模型的经济评估、贴现、敏感性分析、增量分析）和预算影响分析的基本方法。对于那些希望更深入了解健康经济评估的读者，本文提供了关键参考文献。
