The challenges in evaluating the cost-effectiveness of complex interventions

TY - JOUR

T1 - The challenges in evaluating the cost-effectiveness of complex interventions

AU - Faria, Rita

AU - Weatherly, Helen Louise Ann

AU - Kiss, N

AU - Manca, Andrea

AU - Parker, Gillian Mary

AU - Beresford, Bryony Anne

AU - Pilkington, Gerard

AU - Laver Fawcett, A. J.

AU - Kanaan, Mona

AU - Rabiee, Parvaneh

AU - Mann, Rachel Claire

AU - Aspinal, Fiona Jane

PY - 2015/11

Y1 - 2015/11

N2 - Standard cost-effectiveness methods and critical appraisal toolkits may not be adequate for complex interventions. We systematically reviewed and quality assessed cost-effectiveness studies of a complex intervention, propose a series of new questions to inform their critical appraisal and discuss how future research should be targeted to improve the methods. Reablement was used as an example of a complex intervention. Reablement is a multidisciplinary and multifactorial intervention to support people to relearn activities of daily living.

AB - Standard cost-effectiveness methods and critical appraisal toolkits may not be adequate for complex interventions. We systematically reviewed and quality assessed cost-effectiveness studies of a complex intervention, propose a series of new questions to inform their critical appraisal and discuss how future research should be targeted to improve the methods. Reablement was used as an example of a complex intervention. Reablement is a multidisciplinary and multifactorial intervention to support people to relearn activities of daily living.

KW - complex interventions

KW - Cost-effectiveness

U2 - 10.1016/j.jval.2015.09.2770

DO - 10.1016/j.jval.2015.09.2770

M3 - Article

SN - 1098-3015

VL - 18

SP - A727-A728

JO - Value in Health

JF - Value in Health

IS - 7

ER -