NICEly does it: economic analysis within evidence-based clinical practice guidelines

James Mason, Martin Eccles, Nick Freemantle and Mike Drummond ()
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Mike Drummond: Centre for Health Economics, The University of York

No 164chedp, Working Papers from Centre for Health Economics, University of York

Abstract: There is increasing professional and policy interest in the role of clinical guidelines for promoting effective and efficient health care. The NHS Health Technology Assessment Programme identified an urgent need, when such guidelines are produced, to develop a framework and methods for incorporating the best evidence of effectiveness, taking into account information on cost-effectiveness. This paper describes the development of recent evidence-based guidelines, for use in primary care, which were the result of recent work by the North of England Guidelines Development Group. Their specific aim was to incorporate economic analysis into the guideline process and treatment recommendations. The introduction of economic data raised some methodological issues, specifically: in providing valid and generalisable cost estimates; in the grading of cost ‘evidence’; in finding a presentation helpful to clinicians. The approach used was to help clinicians aggregate the various attributes of treatment to make good treatment recommendations, rather than interpret cost-effectiveness ratios. In none of the guideline areas was there adequate information to estimate a cost per quality-adjusted-life-year. In the light of this research, future areas of work are identified and some recommendations are made for the forthcoming National Institute for Clinical Excellence.

Keywords: evidence-based medicine; economic evaluation; clinical guidelines; NICE (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34 pages
Date: 1998-12
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