Examining the underpinnings of decisions to allocate public resources to social care: A systematic review.

The increasing demand for social care, resulting from population ageing and the growing prevalence of chronic diseases and disabilities puts pressure on public resources. This trend necessitates decisions on the allocation of those resources to social care services. Several states have established explicit decision-making frameworks to inform resource-allocation decisions on healthcare to safeguard efficient and equitable access to healthcare services despite the scarcity of resources.

The role of budget impact and its relationship with cost-effectiveness in reimbursement decisions on health technologies in the Netherlands.

Health authorities using cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) for informing reimbursement decisions on health technologies increasingly require economic evaluations encompassing both CEA and budget impact analysis (BIA). Good Research Practices advocate that the economic and clinical assumptions underlying these analyses are aligned and consistently applied. Nonetheless, CEAs and BIAs often are stand-alone analyses used in different stages of the decision-making process.

Comparing heuristic valuation processes between health state valuation from child and adult perspectives.

Objectives: Health state valuation assumes that respondents trade off between all aspects of choice tasks and maximize their utility. Yet, respondents may use heuristic valuation processes, i.e.

Obtaining preference scores for an abbreviated self-completion version of the Teen-Addiction Severity Index (ASC T-ASI) to value therapy outcomes of systemic family interventions: a discrete choice experiment.

Background: Systemic family interventions for adolescents with problems of substance use and/or delinquency are increasingly focused subject of economic evaluations. Treatment effects go beyond improvements in commonly measured health-related quality of life (HRQOL). The Teen-Addiction Severity Index (T-ASI) was identified as capable of capturing these broad outcomes.