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Economic evaluations of interventions against viral pandemics: a scoping review.
Rasmussen, M K; Kronborg, C; Fasterholdt, I; Kidholm, K.
  • Rasmussen MK; Centre for Innovative Medical Technology, Odense University Hospital, And Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark. Electronic address: Maja.Kjaer.Rasmussen@rsyd.dk.
  • Kronborg C; Department of Economics, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.
  • Fasterholdt I; Centre for Innovative Medical Technology, Odense University Hospital, And Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.
  • Kidholm K; Centre for Innovative Medical Technology, Odense University Hospital, And Department of Clinical Research, University of Southern Denmark, Denmark.
Public Health ; 208: 72-79, 2022 Jul.
Article in English | MEDLINE | ID: covidwho-1895388
ABSTRACT

OBJECTIVES:

The COVID-19 pandemic has led to suggestions that cost-effectiveness analyses should adopt a broader perspective when estimating costs. This review aims to provide an overview of economic evaluations of interventions against viral pandemics in terms of the perspective taken, types of costs included, comparators, type of economic model, data sources and methods for estimating productivity costs. STUDY

DESIGN:

Scoping literature review.

METHODS:

Publications were eligible if they conducted a cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-utility analysis, cost-benefit analysis or cost-minimisation analysis and evaluated interventions aimed at viral pandemics or for patients infected with viral pandemic disease. We searched PubMed, Embase and Scopus for relevant references and charted data from the selected full-text publications into a predefined spreadsheet based on research sub-questions, summary tables and figures.

RESULTS:

From 5410 references, 36 full-text publications fulfilled the inclusion criteria. The economic evaluations were mainly model based and included direct medical costs of hospital treatment. Around half of the studies included productivity costs and the proportion of total costs attributed to productivity costs ranged from 10% to 90%, depending on estimation methods, assumptions about valuation of time, type of intervention, severity of illness and degree of transmission.

CONCLUSIONS:

Economic evaluations of interventions against viral pandemics differed in terms of estimation methods and reporting of productivity costs, even for similar interventions. Hence, the literature on economic evaluations for pandemic response would benefit from having standards for conducting and reporting economic evaluations, especially for productivity costs.
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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Pandemics / COVID-19 Type of study: Experimental Studies / Prognostic study / Reviews Limits: Humans Language: English Journal: Public Health Year: 2022 Document Type: Article

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Full text: Available Collection: International databases Database: MEDLINE Main subject: Pandemics / COVID-19 Type of study: Experimental Studies / Prognostic study / Reviews Limits: Humans Language: English Journal: Public Health Year: 2022 Document Type: Article