Are Estimates of the Health Opportunity Cost Being Used to Draw Conclusions in Published Cost-Effectiveness Analyses? A Scoping Review in Four Countries.
Laura Vallejo-TorresBorja García-LorenzoLaura Catherine EdneyNiek Waltherus StadhoudersIjeoma P EdokaIván Castilla RodríguezLidia García-PérezRenata LinertováCristina Valcárcel-NazcoJonathan KarnonPublished in: Applied health economics and health policy (2021)
The adoption of HOC-based CETs by identified published CEAs has been uneven across the four analysed countries, most likely due to underlying differences in their decision-making processes. Our results also reinforce a previous finding indicating that CETs might be endogenously selected to fit authors' conclusions.