Appraise

Assessing Costs

In this section we will be looking at how costs are measured using economic analysis.

We'll cover:

General principles: why we want to analyse costs in health care
Source of resource use data: where we can find the information we need to estimate costs
Perspective: whose costs are included in the analysis
Type of resources/costs: how we can classify types of resources & costs
Valuing of resources: how we gather all the relevant cost information
Presentation of results: how costs are reported in published studies
Sensitivity analysis: what the effects of changes or variation in costs are

This page updated on 25/11/05