Publication year: 2011
Source: Social Science & Medicine, In Press, Accepted Manuscript, Available online 3 February 2011
Astrid, Brousselle , Chantale, Lessard
Health economic evaluation aims at providing information on the efficiency of interventions. Since the 1980s, there have been major developments in the field, especially in terms of methodologies. As the field has expanded and developed, methodologies have become increasingly sophisticated. In parallel, over the past decade, the conduct of economic evaluations has become more and more institutionalized with, among other things, the creation of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in England and Wales and a growing number of health technology assessment (HTA) agencies around the world. Yet the literature has identified important barriers to the use…