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Use of health economic evaluation in the implementation and improvement science fields—a systematic literature review
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BACKGROUND: Economic evaluation can inform whether strategies designed to improve the quality of health care delivery and the uptake of evidence-based practices represent a cost-effective use of limited resources. We report a systematic review and critical appraisal of the application of health economic methods in improvement/implementation research. METHOD: A systematic literature search identified 1668 papers across the Agris, Embase, Global Health, HMIC, PsycINFO, Social Policy and Practice, MEDLINE and EconLit databases between 2004 and 2016. Abstracts were screened in Rayyan database, and key data extracted into Microsoft Excel. Evidence was critically appraised using the Quality of Health Economic Studies (QHES) framework. RESULTS: Thirty studies were included-all health economic studies that included implementation or improvement as a part of the evaluation. Studies were conducted mostly in Europe (62%) or North America (23%) and were largely hospital-based (70%). The field was split between improvement (N = 16) and implementation (N = 14) studies. The most common intervention evaluated (43%) was staffing reconfiguration, specifically changing from physician-led to nurse-led care delivery. Most studies (N = 19) were ex-post economic evaluations carried out empirically-of those, 17 were cost effectiveness analyses. We found four cost utility analyses that used economic modelling rather than empirical methods. Two cost-consequence analyses were also found. Specific implementation costs considered included costs associated with staff training in new care delivery pathways, the impacts of new processes on patient and carer costs and the costs of developing new care processes/pathways. Over half (55%) of the included studies were rated 'good' on QHES. Study quality was boosted through inclusion of appropriate comparators and reporting of incremental analysis (where relevant); and diminished through use of post-hoc subgroup analysis, limited reporting of the handling of uncertainty and justification for choice of discount rates. CONCLUSIONS: The quantity of published economic evaluations applied to the field of improvement and implementation research remains modest; however, quality is overall good. Implementation and improvement scientists should work closely with health economists to consider costs associated with improvement interventions and their associated implementation strategies. We offer a set of concrete recommendations to facilitate this endeavour.
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This systematic review identified 30 studies (2004–2016) applying health economic evaluation to implementation and improvement science, finding modest quantity but overall good quality. It recommends closer collaboration with health economists and better capture of implementation/hidden costs, plus greater use of ex-ante and hybrid evaluative designs.
Key findings
- From 1668 records, 30 studies were included: 16 improvement and 14 implementation studies. Most were European (62%) or North American (23%) and hospital-based (70%).
- The most common intervention was staffing reconfiguration in 13 studies (43%), specifically changing from physician-led to nurse-led care. Nineteen studies were ex-post empirical economic evaluations, including 17 cost-effectiveness analyses; four cost-utility analyses used economic modelling, and two were cost-consequence analyses.
- QHES appraisal covered 22 papers: average score was 76/100, 13 studies (62%) scored >75, and one scored 100. The abstract reports over half (55%) were rated “good.” Improvement studies performed better than implementation studies.
- Only six of 30 studies explicitly assessed implementation-related “hidden” costs such as training, development, and monitoring; three included rollout/scaling scenarios, and one considered funding sources.
Methods
- Systematic literature search across Agris, Embase, Global Health, HMIC, PsycINFO, Social Policy and Practice, MEDLINE, and EconLit, covering publications after 2003 through 16 March 2016; 1668 papers were screened in Rayyan and extracted into Microsoft Excel.
- Inclusion required English-language completed studies in public health/primary/secondary/tertiary care with implementation or improvement aspects, quantifiable patient/service outcomes, and specified economic methods; cost-only studies, protocols, methodological papers, and conference abstracts were excluded.
- Methodological quality was assessed with the Quality of Health Economic Studies (QHES) framework, scoring 16 criteria out of 100, with ≥75 considered “good.”
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- The authors state that strict inclusion criteria may have limited the number of studies identified and synthesised; they excluded cost-only studies and non-English papers, making criteria stricter than prior reviews.
- The authors state they cannot rule out whether early-phase economic analyses are not being done or are simply not reported in academic publications.
- Evident from the text: QHES appraisal excluded literature reviews, meta-analyses, and commentaries, so quality conclusions apply to 22 of 30 included papers; comparison with Hoomans et al. is limited because the two reviews used different quality appraisal frameworks.
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“Thirty studies were included in the final evidence review and synthesis.”
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“Thirty studies were included—all health economic studies that included implementation or improvement as a part of the evaluation.”
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“The most common intervention type, evaluated in 13 (43%) of the included studies, was staffing reconfiguration for service quality improvement, specifically changing from physician-led to nurse-led delivery of interventions to patients.”
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“The most common intervention evaluated (43%) was staffing reconfiguration, specifically changing from physician-led to nurse-led care delivery.”
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“More broadly, interventions involving general service reorganisation or changes to existing systems of care were the primary focus in ten (33%) of studies reviewed.”
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“six studies (23%) were based in either the USA or Canada”
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“or North America (23%)”
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“In terms of health care settings, 21 studies were hospital-based”
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“and were largely hospital-based (70%)”
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“All these evaluations compared a new intervention against current practice.”
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“The most common focus of the reviewed improvement studies was staff reconfigurations within a clinical area from medical to nursing staff”
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“for implementation studies, the most common focus was on implementation strategies of new care pathways or novel services.”
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“The best performing QHES dimensions were the methodological dimensions.”
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“Comparison between economic studies identified in a previous review carried out by Hoomans et al. (covering the immediately preceding period 1998 to 2004) with those identified in this review (2004 to 2016) shows evidence of a general improvement in quality over the past two decades”
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- Not checked yetcites Hoomans et al.
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“Three of the included studies were literature reviews [11, 13, 36].”
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- Partly supportedcites [11] Umscheid CA, Williams K, Brennan PJ. Hospital-based comparative effectiveness centers: translating research into practice to improve the quality, safety and value of patient care. J Gen Intern Med. 2010;25(12):1352–5. sourceExperimental — accuracy not yet measured
The paper’s Abstract (pp. 1352–1355) synthesizes published evidence about hospital-based comparative-effectiveness centers, which supports describing it as an overview of the literature. It also presents the authors’ experience and recommendations, and our copy does not identify it as a literature review or describe a literature-review method. This source alone cannot establish the citing paper’s count of three. (LLM, conf=0.76)
- Not checked yetcites [13] Faulkner A, Mills N, Bainton D, Baxter K, Kinnersley P, Peters TJ. Sharp D. a systematic review of the effect of primary care-based service innovations on quality and patterns of referral to specialist secondary care. Br J Gen Pract. 2003;53(496):878–84.
- Supportedcites [36] Mdege ND, Chindove S, Ali S. The effectiveness and cost implications of task-shifting in the delivery of antiretroviral therapy to HIV-infected patients: a systematic review. Health Policy Plan. 2012;28(3):223–36. source
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“four from Australia and one each from Ethiopia, a subset of African countries (Uganda, Kenya and South Africa) and Malaysia.”
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“Seventeen of the studies (62%) were European-based (mostly from the UK—12 studies)”
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“Studies were conducted mostly in Europe (62%)”
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“In total, the initial search strategy identified 1668 articles, of which 1566 were excluded, 1525 during the initial screen and 41 following full text screening.”
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“Sixteen of the included studies were identified as ‘improvement’ studies (see Table 3, panel 1a) and 14 were identified as ‘implementation’ studies (see Table 3, panel 1b).”
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“The field was split between improvement (N = 16) and implementation (N = 14) studies.”
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“There were also four further CUAs that used economic modelling rather than empirical methods [8–10, 34], and two cost-consequence analyses [16, 35].”
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“We found four cost utility analyses that used economic modelling rather than empirical methods. Two cost-consequence analyses were also found.”
§ Use of health economic evaluation in the implementation and improvement science fields—a systematic literature review > Results > Descriptive analysis of the evidence base
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“Reasons for exclusion were as follows: the study did not include implementation or quality improvement research aspects (575); it did not include economic aspects (447); was not within a health care/public health setting (437); it was in a language other than English (22); it was incomplete (19); or it was not a full refereed publication (e.g. conference abstracts, doctoral theses) (37).”
§ Use of health economic evaluation in the implementation and improvement science fields—a systematic literature review > Results > Studies included
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“Nineteen studies were ex-post economic evaluations of which 17 were CEAs with one CUA [7, 12, 14, 15, 17] [18–30, 33].”
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“Most studies (N = 19) were ex-post economic evaluations carried out empirically—of those, 17 were cost effectiveness analyses.”
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“all of the studies included in our review were empirical and ex-post in nature.”
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“diminished through use of post-hoc subgroup analysis, limited reporting of the handling of uncertainty and justification for choice of discount rates.”
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“Taken together, these criteria are stricter than those applied to prior reviews, which were more inclusive of qualitative outcomes and costing studies.”
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“Scenario analysis for rollout or scaling up was included in three of the studies, and potential funding sources were considered by one study.”
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“Justification for the outcome measures used was not reported in any of the studies included in Hoomans et al. but reported in 68% of studies included here.”
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- Not checked yetcites Hoomans et al.
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“only 42% of studies reviewed by Hoomans et al. included evaluation of costs and outcomes against ‘standard practice/status quo’ comparators, compared to 95% of studies in our review.”
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- Not checked yetcites Hoomans et al.
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“These databases were chosen to attempt to capture the widest range of health improvement, social scientific and health economic studies.”
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“The reference lists of the studies were checked for any related studies that were not picked up by the search.”
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“The QHES instrument was designed to more easily tell the difference between high-quality and low-quality studies [5].”
§ Use of health economic evaluation in the implementation and improvement science fields—a systematic literature review > Methods > Quality appraisal
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- Not checked yetcites [5] Ofman JJ, Sullivan SD, Neumann PJ, Chiou C-F, Henning JM, Wade SW, et al. Examining the value and quality of health economic analyses: implications of utilizing the QHES. J Manag Care Pharm. 2003;9(1):53–61. source
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“Each paper’s methodological quality was assessed using the Quality of Health Economic Studies (QHES) standardised framework [4].”
§ Use of health economic evaluation in the implementation and improvement science fields—a systematic literature review > Methods > Quality appraisal
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- Not checked yetcites [4] Grimshaw JM, Thomas RE, MacLennan G, Fraser C, Ramsay CR, Vale L, et al. Effectiveness and efficiency of guideline dissemination and implementation strategies. Int J Technol Assess Health Care. 2005;21(1):149. source
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“To mitigate for potential selection bias after screening, keyword searching was done in Rayyan for the main keywords within the excluded categories (primarily, those that were deemed to be topic-relevant but not containing economic methods). These were then re-screened by the first author.”
§ Use of health economic evaluation in the implementation and improvement science fields—a systematic literature review > Methods > Inclusion and exclusion criteria
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“A systematic review methodology was undertaken.”
§ Use of health economic evaluation in the implementation and improvement science fields—a systematic literature review > Methods > Search strategy
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“These were cross-checked for accuracy during the data extraction stage.”
§ Use of health economic evaluation in the implementation and improvement science fields—a systematic literature review > Methods > Data extraction
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“As per standard practice using this framework, the studies were deemed to be of good quality if they attained a score of 75/100 or higher [5].”
§ Use of health economic evaluation in the implementation and improvement science fields—a systematic literature review > Methods > Quality appraisal
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [5] Ofman JJ, Sullivan SD, Neumann PJ, Chiou C-F, Henning JM, Wade SW, et al. Examining the value and quality of health economic analyses: implications of utilizing the QHES. J Manag Care Pharm. 2003;9(1):53–61. source
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“We also only considered papers reported in English.”
§ Use of health economic evaluation in the implementation and improvement science fields—a systematic literature review > Discussion > Strengths and limitations
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“though there remains scope for continued improvement in key areas and for increased collaboration between health economics and implementation science.”
§ Use of health economic evaluation in the implementation and improvement science fields—a systematic literature review > Conclusion
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“The strict inclusion criteria mean that the reviewed evidence is cohesive.”
§ Use of health economic evaluation in the implementation and improvement science fields—a systematic literature review > Discussion > Strengths and limitations
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In the paper
“The results of evaluating the 30 included papers paint a picture of an area of research that is still developing.”
§ Use of health economic evaluation in the implementation and improvement science fields—a systematic literature review > Discussion > Reflections on the evidence
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In the paper
“The systematic appraisal we carried out also allows us a longitudinal critique of the quality of economic studies in this field.”
§ Use of health economic evaluation in the implementation and improvement science fields—a systematic literature review > Discussion > Strengths and limitations
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
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“Existing implementation frameworks [40] make reference to the need to consider costs as part of an evaluative research strategy, but do not specify how this is to be done.”
§ Use of health economic evaluation in the implementation and improvement science fields—a systematic literature review > Discussion > Implications for implementation and improvement research and future directions
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [40] Proctor E, Silmere H, Raghavan R, Hovmand P, Aarons G, Bunger A, Griffey R, Hensley M. Outcomes for implementation research: conceptual distinctions, measurement challenges, and research agenda. Adm Policy Ment Health Ment Health Serv Res. 2011;38(2):65–76. source
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In the paper
“we would argue that the QHES used here is based on Drummond’s guidelines (used in prior reviews) and is designed to cover the same topics, but offers a simpler, quantifiable format that is easier to apply. [32]”
§ Use of health economic evaluation in the implementation and improvement science fields—a systematic literature review > Discussion > Strengths and limitations
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites [32] Husereau D, Drummond M, Petrou S, Carswell C, Moher D, Greenberg D, Augustovski F, Briggs AH, Mauskopf J, Loder E. Consolidated health economic evaluation reporting standards (CHEERS) statement. Cost Eff Resource Allocation. 2013;11(1):6. source
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In the paper
“however, quality is overall good.”
§ Use of health economic evaluation in the implementation and improvement science fields—a systematic literature review > Abstract > Conclusions
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In the paper
“Additionally, the expanding application of health economic evaluations within the improvement and implementation sphere where high-quality study reporting has been a major recent focus has also plausibly contributed to improved reporting.”
§ Use of health economic evaluation in the implementation and improvement science fields—a systematic literature review > Discussion > Quality of the evidence
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Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper’s conclusions may not depend on it. The paper may give no reason why it holds.
The paper relies on this without support.
The relationship between implementation outcomes, service outcomes and patient outcomes is central to understanding the benefits and costs and overall cost-effectiveness of an intervention.
“The relationship between implementation outcomes, service outcomes and patient outcomes is central to understanding the benefits and costs and overall cost-effectiveness of an intervention.”
The paper relies on this without support.
Economic evaluation can inform choices over whether and how resources should be allocated to improve services and for implementing evidence into health care practice.
“Economic evaluation can inform choices over whether and how resources should be allocated to improve services and for implementing evidence into health care practice.”
Claims other papers make about this one
Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?
The source backs part of the claim, not all of it — or backs it for a different population, condition or comparison.
In the citing paper
“Almost all implementation research involving financing strategies [24] or economic evaluations [2, 3] has focused on active implementation, yet all phases are relevant to financing decisions.”
From Translating economic evaluations into financing strategies for implementing evidence-based practices (2021) · cites this paper as [3]
Experimental — accuracy not yet measuredIn the citing paper
“Implementation researchers are increasingly using economic evaluation to explore the benefits produced by implementing evidence-based practices (EBPs) in healthcare settings.”
From Translating economic evaluations into financing strategies for implementing evidence-based practices (2021) · cites this paper as [3]
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Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
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Rated major: it would touch a result — a value a result rests on, reported and recomputed p-values on opposite sides of the significance level, two passages that conflict with no sign which is right, or a cited work retracted before this paper was published.
In the paper
§ Use of health economic evaluation in the implementation and improvement science fields—a systematic literature review > Results > Descriptive analysis of the evidence base
“There were also four further CUAs that used economic modelling rather than empirical methods [8–10, 34], and two cost-consequence analyses [16, 35].”
§ Use of health economic evaluation in the implementation and improvement science fields—a systematic literature review > Discussion > Reflections on the evidence
“we found that all of the studies included in our review were empirical and ex-post in nature.”
Rated major: it would touch a result — a value a result rests on, reported and recomputed p-values on opposite sides of the significance level, two passages that conflict with no sign which is right, or a cited work retracted before this paper was published.
In the paper
“In total, the initial search strategy identified 1668 articles, of which 1566 were excluded, 1525 during the initial screen and 41 following full text screening.”
§ Use of health economic evaluation in the implementation and improvement science fields—a systematic literature review > Results > Studies included
Reported 30 · recomputed 102
Rated minor: it would not touch a result — a value no result rests on, a p-value that stays on the same side of the significance level, or a conflict that is clerical, resolved elsewhere in the paper, or outside its own findings.
In the paper
“Reasons for exclusion were as follows: the study did not include implementation or quality improvement research aspects (575); it did not include economic aspects (447); was not within a health care/public health setting (437); it was in a language other than English (22); it was incomplete (19); or it was not a full refereed publication (e.g. conference abstracts, doctoral theses) (37).”
§ Use of health economic evaluation in the implementation and improvement science fields—a systematic literature review > Results > Studies included
Reported 1566 · recomputed 1537
Rated minor: it would not touch a result — a value no result rests on, a p-value that stays on the same side of the significance level, or a conflict that is clerical, resolved elsewhere in the paper, or outside its own findings.
In the paper
“Seventeen of the studies (62%) were European-based”
§ Use of health economic evaluation in the implementation and improvement science fields—a systematic literature review > Results > Descriptive analysis of the evidence base
Reported 62 · recomputed 56.666667
Rated minor: it would not touch a result — a value no result rests on, a p-value that stays on the same side of the significance level, or a conflict that is clerical, resolved elsewhere in the paper, or outside its own findings.
In the paper
“six studies (23%) were based in either the USA or Canada”
§ Use of health economic evaluation in the implementation and improvement science fields—a systematic literature review > Results > Descriptive analysis of the evidence base
Reported 23 · recomputed 20
Rated minor: it would not touch a result — a value no result rests on, a p-value that stays on the same side of the significance level, or a conflict that is clerical, resolved elsewhere in the paper, or outside its own findings.
In the paper
“Thirteen of the studies (62%) attained a ‘good’ score of over 75.”
§ Use of health economic evaluation in the implementation and improvement science fields—a systematic literature review > Results > Quality appraisal
Reported 62 · recomputed 59.090909
Rated minor: it would not touch a result — a value no result rests on, a p-value that stays on the same side of the significance level, or a conflict that is clerical, resolved elsewhere in the paper, or outside its own findings.
In the paper
§ Use of health economic evaluation in the implementation and improvement science fields—a systematic literature review > Results > Descriptive analysis of the evidence base
“| Faulkener et al | 2003 | UK | Improvement | Primary Care | Improved referral | N/A | Review | Review | N/A |”
§ Use of health economic evaluation in the implementation and improvement science fields—a systematic literature review > Methods > Inclusion and exclusion criteria
“Were published after 2003 and before 16th March 2016”
Rated minor: it would not touch a result — a value no result rests on, a p-value that stays on the same side of the significance level, or a conflict that is clerical, resolved elsewhere in the paper, or outside its own findings.
In the paper
§ Use of health economic evaluation in the implementation and improvement science fields—a systematic literature review > Results > Descriptive analysis of the evidence base
“Scenario analysis for rollout or scaling up was included in three of the studies”
§ Use of health economic evaluation in the implementation and improvement science fields—a systematic literature review > Results > Quality appraisal
“| Maloney et al. 2012 | Training and set up costs | Roll out scenarios | Yes | | Mdege et al. 2012 | Training costs | Roll out scenarios | Yes | | Mortimer et al. 2013 | Development costs; amortisation; delivery costs; roll out costs | Roll out scenarios | No | | Purshouse et al. 2013 | None | Roll out scenarios | Yes, although sensitive to rollout costs |”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Roberts, S. L. E., Healey, A., & Sevdalis, N.
- Affiliations
- King's College London (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Roberts, Sarah Louise Elin
- Venue
- Implementation Science
- Published
- 2019-07-15
- Volume
- 14
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 72-72
- ISSN
- 1748-5908 (ISSN-L)
- PMC
- PMC6631608
- OpenAlex
- W2959993899
- Semantic Scholar
- 7ec32b728ccd1fb347c955b4d846cc3dc610e90b
- Cited by
- 161
- References
- 41
- Citations by year
- 2026: 14 · 2025: 20 · 2024: 22 · 2023: 26 · 2022: 30 · 2021: 26 · 2020: 21 · 2019: 1
- FWCI
- 5.42
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Locations
- Implementation Science (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Research Portal (King's College London) (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- DOAJ (DOAJ: Directory of Open Access Journals) (submittedVersion)
- Minerva Access (University of Melbourne) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
- Funders
- National Institute for Health Research
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Health Sciences › Health Professions › General Health Professions › Health Policy Implementation Science
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Healthcare Quality and Management
- Keywords
- health economic evaluation, implementation research, improvement science, cost-effectiveness analysis, nurse-led care, implementation costs, cost-utility analysis, cost-consequence analysis, hospital care delivery
- MeSH terms
- Implementation Science, Cost-Benefit Analysis, Delivery of Health Care, Humans, Models, Economic, Evidence-Based Practice, Quality Improvement
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