Micro-costing in health and medicine: a critical appraisal.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Concerns about rising health care costs require rigorous economic study to inform clinical and policy decision-making. Micro-costing is a cost estimation methodology employing detailed resource utilization and unit cost data to generate precise estimates of economic costs. Micro-costing studies have not been critically appraised.

Methods

Critical appraisal of micro-costing studies in English. Studies fully or predominantly employing micro-costing were appraised for methodological and reporting quality through economic evaluation guidelines (Evers, Drummond, Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards (CHEERS), Fukuda and Imanaka checklists). Following the Panel on Cost Effectiveness in Health and Medicine, micro-costing studies were defined as invo

SUBMITTER: Xu X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7789519 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature