Bayesian Methods in Health Economics

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Health economic evaluation in practice

5.1 Introduction

In this final chapter we present some examples of health economic evaluation.

In particular we focus on three “typical” cases; the first concerns the analysis

of individual level data, specifically from a RCT, in which a sample of individ-

uals is observed in terms of the relevant measures of cost and clinical outcome.

The second example focusses on the process of evidence synthesis, a situation

particularly relevant when individual data are not available. In these situa-

tions, the relevant random quantities can be estimated by the combination of

the available evidence, e.g. coming from published ...