Authors: Praveen Thokala Simon Dixon Beate Jahn
Publish Date: 2014/11/20
Volume: 33, Issue: 3, Pages: 193-203
Abstract
Within health technology assessment HTA costeffectiveness analysis and budget impact analyses have been broadly accepted as important components of decision making However whilst they address efficiency and affordability the issue of implementation and feasibility has been largely ignored HTA commonly takes place within a deliberative framework that captures issues of implementation and feasibility in a qualitative manner We argue that only through a formal quantitative assessment of resource constraints can these issues be fully addressed This paper argues the need for resource modelling to be considered explicitly in HTA First economic evaluation and budget impact models are described along with their limitations in evaluating feasibility Next resource modelling is defined and its usefulness is described along with examples of resource modelling from the literature Then the important issues that need to be considered when undertaking resource modelling are described before setting out recommendations for the use of resource modelling in HTAThe authors would like to acknowledge the feedback from the reviewers There are no conflicts of interest for any of the authors SD wrote the initial drafts for Sects 1 2 and 6 PT and BJ wrote the initial drafts for Sects 3 4 and 5 All authors contributed to the finalising the paper and revising the paper based on reviewers’ comments PT is the overall guarantor for the paper
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