Riewpaiboon Arthorn
J Med Assoc Thai. 2014 May;97 Suppl 5:S17-26.
The provision of guidelines on cost measurement for health economic evaluations enable research to be more standardized and hence more comparable, which offers clear benefits for policy formulation and health management. The guidelines herein focus on three aspects-the cost of health intervention/health care programs, the cost of illness/health risks, and use of costs in health economic evaluation. For each aspect, the main concepts and methods are outlined, and recommendations for the Thai context are presented. There is particular focus on how to calculate various costs according to different evaluation methods and perspectives, how to evaluate source of cost data, how to make value adjustments and how to present cost measurement findings.
提供卫生经济评估成本计量指南能使研究更加标准化，从而更具可比性，这为政策制定和卫生管理带来明显益处。本文的指南聚焦三个方面——卫生干预/医疗保健项目的成本、疾病/健康风险的成本以及卫生经济评估中成本的使用。对于每个方面，都概述了主要概念和方法，并针对泰国情况提出了建议。特别关注如何根据不同的评估方法和视角计算各种成本、如何评估成本数据来源、如何进行价值调整以及如何呈现成本计量结果。
