기사
Transferability indices for health economic evaluations: methods and applications /
- 개인저자
- Antonanzas, Fernando. et al
- 수록페이지
- 629-643 p.
- 발행일자
- 2009.06.23
- 출판사
- Wiley
초록
[영문]In this paper, we have elaborated an index in two phases to measure the degree of transferability of the results of the economic evaluation of health technologies. In the first phase, we have considered the objective factors critical and noncritical to derive a general transferability index, which can be used to measure this internal property of the studies of economic evaluation applied to health technologies. In the second phase, with a more specific index, we have measured the degree of applicability of the results of a given study to a different setting. Both indices have been combined arithmetic and geometric mean to obtain a global transferability index. We have applied the global index to a sample of 27 Spanish studies on infectious diseases. We have obtained an average value for the index of 0.54, quite far from the maximum theoretical value of 1. We also found that 11 studies lacked some critical factor and were directly deemed as not transferable