Viewpoint: Economic evaluation of package of care interventions employing clinical guidelines.

Journal article

Increasingly attention is shifting towards delivering essential packages of care, often based on clinical practice guidelines, as a means to improve maternal, child and newborn survival in low-income settings. Cost effectiveness analysis (CEA), allied to the evaluation of less complex intervention, has become an increasingly important tool for priority setting. Arguably such analyses should be extended to inform decisions around the deployment of more complex interventions. In the discussion,...

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Authors: Barasa, E; English, M

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Tropical medicine and international health : TM and IH
• Volume: 16
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 97-104
• Publication date: 2011-01-01
• DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3156.2010.02637.x
• EISSN: 1365-3156
• ISSN: 1360-2276
• Language: English
• Keywords: Infant; Practice Guidelines as Topic; Health Services Research; Child Health Services; Infant, Newborn; Female; Maternal Health Services; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Child; Delivery of Health Care; Evidence-Based Medicine; Child, Preschool; Humans; Health Status Indicators