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Future costs in economic evaluation: A comment on Lee

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  • Feenstra, Talitha L.
  • van Baal, Pieter H.M.
  • Gandjour, Afshin
  • Brouwer, Werner B.F.

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In a recent article in this journal Lee argued that indirect medical costs should be ignored in economic evaluations. To reach this conclusion, Lee uses an unrealistic and uncommon budget constraint. This comment highlights a number of methodological problems in Lee's analysis. Moreover, it highlights that looking at current practice of economic evaluation, Lee's model implies the inclusion rather than the exclusion of indirect medical costs.

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  • Feenstra, Talitha L. & van Baal, Pieter H.M. & Gandjour, Afshin & Brouwer, Werner B.F., 2008. "Future costs in economic evaluation: A comment on Lee," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 27(6), pages 1645-1649, December.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:jhecon:v:27:y:2008:i:6:p:1645-1649
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    1. Kellerborg, Klas & Wouterse, Bram & Brouwer, Werner & van Baal, Pieter, 2021. "Estimating the costs of non-medical consumption in life-years gained for economic evaluations," Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier, vol. 289(C).
    2. Basu, Anirban, 2020. "A welfare-theoretic model consistent with the practice of cost-effectiveness analysis and its implications," Journal of Health Economics, Elsevier, vol. 70(C).
    3. Pieter H. M. van Baal & Talitha L. Feenstra & Johan J. Polder & Rudolf T. Hoogenveen & Werner B. F. Brouwer, 2011. "Economic evaluation and the postponement of health care costs," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 20(4), pages 432-445, April.
    4. Alec Morton & Amanda I. Adler & David Bell & Andrew Briggs & Werner Brouwer & Karl Claxton & Neil Craig & Alastair Fischer & Peter McGregor & Pieter van Baal, 2016. "Unrelated Future Costs and Unrelated Future Benefits: Reflections on NICE Guide to the Methods of Technology Appraisal," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 25(8), pages 933-938, August.
    5. David Meltzer, 2012. "Future Costs in Medical Cost-effectiveness Analysis," Chapters, in: Andrew M. Jones (ed.), The Elgar Companion to Health Economics, Second Edition, chapter 45, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    6. Charles Christian Adarkwah & Amirhossein Sadoghi & Afschin Gandjour, 2016. "Should Cost‐Effectiveness Analysis Include the Cost of Consumption Activities? AN Empirical Investigation," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 25(2), pages 249-256, February.
    7. Pieter van Baal & David Meltzer & Werner Brouwer, 2016. "Future Costs, Fixed Healthcare Budgets, and the Decision Rules of Cost‐Effectiveness Analysis," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 25(2), pages 237-248, February.
    8. Bengt Liljas, 2010. "On the welfare theoretic foundation of cost-effectiveness analysis—the case when survival is not affected," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 11(1), pages 5-13, February.
    9. Pieter Baal & David Meltzer & Werner Brouwer, 2013. "Pharmacoeconomic Guidelines Should Prescribe Inclusion of Indirect Medical Costs! A Response to Grima et al," PharmacoEconomics, Springer, vol. 31(5), pages 369-373, May.

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