Specialised Commissioning Alert: economic analysis

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26 April 2020

Surgeon 2020 Apr 26;S1479-666X(20)30045-7. doi: 10.1016/j.surge.2020.04.001

A search for research into the impact of surgical comanagement programmes on healthcare costs identified 8 studies, five of which reported savings while three three reported increased costs. Seven of the studies reported decreases in length of stay.

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A validated frailty index derived from a database of elective surgery at a US academic medical centre (n=10,257, years 2016-2017) found that frailty continued to be associated with increased direct cost, indirect cost, total cost, and decreased hospital income.

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The CIA Model is for use by the NHS to support economic appraisals in business cases. It replaces the Generic Economic Model (GEM).
The user guide shows how the CIA Model can be used to support economic appraisals in business cases. It provides guidance on the key economic principles, how these are used in economic appraisals and how the outcome of these appraisals is interpreted.

Evaluating service innovations in health care and public health requires flexibility, collaboration and pragmatism; this collection identifies robust, innovative and mixed methods to inform such evaluations.
"Broadly speaking, there are two approaches to producing summative assessments of the costs and benefits of entire programmes. The first involves direct estimation of the summative impacts through exploitation of some experiment or other source of variation in implementation. The second involves modelling the causal chain through component processes to derive an aggregate measure where direct estimation is not feasible." see Recent developments

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