Unrelated future costs and unrelated future benefits : reflections on NICE guidance to the methods of technology appraisal

Morton, Alec and Adler, Amanda I. and Briggs, Andy and Bell, David and Brouwer, Werner and Claxton, Karl and Fischer, Alastair and Craig, Neil and McGregor, Peter and van Baal, Pieter (2016) Unrelated future costs and unrelated future benefits : reflections on NICE guidance to the methods of technology appraisal. Health Economics, 25 (8). 933–938. ISSN 1057-9230

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    Abstract

    In this editorial, we consider the vexing issue of “unrelated future costs” (for example, the costs of caring for people with dementia or kidney failure after preventing their deaths from a heart attack). The National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) guidance is not to take such costs into account in technology appraisals. However, standard appraisal practice involves modelling the benefits of those unrelated technologies. We argue that there is a sound principled reason for including both the costs and benefits of unrelated care. Changing this practice would have material consequences for decisions about reimbursing particular technologies and we urge future research to understand this better.

    ORCID iDs

    Morton, Alec ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3803-8517, Adler, Amanda I., Briggs, Andy, Bell, David, Brouwer, Werner, Claxton, Karl, Fischer, Alastair, Craig, Neil, McGregor, Peter ORCID logoORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1221-7963 and van Baal, Pieter;
    • Item type:Article
      ID code:56361
      Dates:
      Date
      Event
      31 August 2016
      Published
      3 July 2016
      Published Online
      11 May 2016
      Accepted
      Notes:This is the peer reviewed version of the following article: Morton, A., Adler, A. I., Bell, D., Briggs, A., Brouwer, W., Claxton, K., Craig, N., Fischer, A., McGregor, P., and van Baal, P. (2016) Unrelated Future Costs and Unrelated Future Benefits: Reflections on NICE Guide to the Methods of Technology Appraisal. Health Econ., 25: 933–938. doi: 10.1002/hec.3366., which has been published in final form at http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/hec.3366. This article may be used for non-commercial purposes in accordance with Wiley Terms and Conditions for Self-Archiving.
      Keywords:NICE, medical technologies, unrelated future costs, economic appraisal, healthcare, Public Finance, Economics, Econometrics and Finance (miscellaneous)
      Subjects:Social Sciences > Public Finance
      Department:Strathclyde Business School > Management Science
      Strathclyde Business School > Economics
      Depositing user: Pure Administrator
      Date deposited:12 May 2016 13:41
      Last modified:21 Jan 2021 00:12
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      URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/56361
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