The European Network of Health Economic Evaluation Databases (EURO?NHEED) Project

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• 作者：John Nixon ; Philippe Ulmann ; Julie Glanville ; Stéphanie Boulenger ; Michael Drummond and Gérard de Pouvourville
• 关键词：Cost ; effectiveness ; EURO NHEED ; Healthcare economic evaluations ; Healthcare interventions ; Multi ; national databases
• 刊名：The European Journal of Health Economics
• 出版年：2004
• 出版时间：May 2004
• 年：2004
• 卷：5
• 期：2
• 页码：183-187
• 全文大小：156 KB
• 刊物类别：Business and Economics
• 刊物主题：Economics
  Economic Policy
  Public Health
  Public Finance and Economics
  
• 出版者：Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
• ISSN：1618-7601

文摘

This paper provides a first outline of the European Network of Health Economic Evaluation Databases (EURO NHEED) project. The project is funded by the European Commission and will implement, in 7 European centres based in France, Germany, Italy, The Netherlands, Spain, Sweden and the United Kingdom, databases on the economic evaluation of healthcare interventions. The network will be based on two existing and well-established resources, namely the UKs NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED), and Frances Connaissances et Décision en ÉConomie de la Santé (CODECS) database. EURO NHEED will initially cover 17 European countries and will provide its users with bibliographic records, detailing the main characteristics of all included studies. In addition, structured abstracts will be provided for articles identified as full economic evaluations (cost-benefit, cost-effectiveness or cost-utility), which will offer a detailed critique of the findings and the methodology used. These databases will be accessible free of charge on the Internet. The EURO NHEED project is the first attempt to develop such a resource on a multi-national basis. The project will bring together Health Economists and Information Scientists from the European Union and beyond and is anticipated to facilitate a number of benefits and advances in the field of Health Economics. These include harmonisation and increased understanding of the theory and methodology of economic evaluation in healthcare, the interpretation of the generalisability of studies to target settings, and the influence of healthcare system variations among the European countries. The project will therefore advance the state of the art in collecting, summarising, critiquing and disseminating economic evaluations of healthcare conducted within Europe.