Economic evaluation of innovative technologies in health care should include a short-run perspective

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Eddy M. M. Adang
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[1] Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Center,Department of Epidemiology, Biostatistics, and HTA
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The European Journal of Health Economics | 2008年 / 9卷
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Short-run efficiency; Long-run efficiency; Cost-effectiveness analysis; Diseconomies of scale; Scope and learning;
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Knowledge about the cost-effectiveness of innovative technologies or new guidelines in health care is more and more a necessary condition for implementation in common practice. However, there are situations where implementation of a new technology that is found more effective and cost effective and is strongly advocated by the medical profession stagnates. The reason for this is the discrepancy between long-run efficiency, on which cost effectiveness is based, and short-run efficiency. This paper addresses the potential paradox between long-run and short-run efficiency in health care and explores possibilities to overcome hurdles to implementation due to that paradox.
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