Abstract

CASTILLO GUZMAN, Antonio et al. Proposals of decision rules in economic assessment of health technologies for the Cuban context. Rev Cubana Invest Bioméd [online]. 2011, vol.30, n.3, pp.360-367. ISSN 0864-0300.

INTRODUCTION: Although the economic assessments in the Cuban health sector have increased in number and in quality, they are neither used frequently used in the decision-making nor are frequently requested. One of the potential causes of this non-use is that almost any shows of decision rules applied by researchers for the own alternative increasing the uncertainty of those charged of decisions-making. OBJECTIVE: To present a series of decision rules in economic assessments to be part of the literature. RESULTS: Some decision criteria are presented for economic assessment of cost-effectiveness ( cost-effectiveness plan); cost-usefulness (a variant of cost-effectiveness technique) which uses as decision criterion also the cost-effectiveness plan; cost-benefit uses the net current value, the gross cost-benefit ratio and the performance internal rate. CONCLUSION: The researches related to economic evaluations must to be enclosed by the decision rules on the proposed alternatives, thus it allow to decision-maker to make the choice.

Keywords : Economic assessment; decision rules; cost-effectiveness; cost-usefulness; cost-benefit.

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