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Unrelated Future Costs and Unrelated Future Benefits: Reflections on NICE Guide to the Methods of Technology Appraisal

Year: 2016

Type: editorial

Abstract: In this editorial, we consider the vexing issue of 'unrelated future costs' (for example, the costs of caring for people with dementia or kidney failure after preventing their deaths from a heart attack). The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance is not to take such costs into account in technology appraisals. However, standard appraisal practice involves modelling the benefits of those unrelated technologies. We argue that there is a sound principled reason for including both the costs and benefits of unrelated care. Changing this practice would have material consequences for decisions about reimbursing particular technologies, and we urge future research to understand this better. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Source: Health Economics

DOI: 10.1002/hec.3366

Authors: Alec Morton, Amanda I. Adler, David Bell, Andrew Briggs, Werner Brouwer, Karl Claxton, Neil Craig, Alastair Fischer, Peter McGregor, Pieter van Baal

Institutions: University of Strathclyde, Addenbrooke's Hospital, University of Stirling, University of Glasgow, Erasmus University Rotterdam, University of York, National Health Service Scotland, St George's Hospital, Office Of Health Economics

Language: English

Topic: Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life

Subfield: Economics and Econometrics

Field: Economics, Econometrics and Finance

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

Funders: University of Strathclyde, Economic and Social Research Council

Award: G3704075891

OpenAlex ID: W2464166274

Cites: 19

Cited by: 30

Related to: 10