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Value in Health

Volume 12, Issue 4, June 2009, Pages 409-418
Value in Health

Transferability of Economic Evaluations Across Jurisdictions: ISPOR Good Research Practices Task Force Report

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Abstract

A growing number of jurisdictions now request economic data in support of their decision-making procedures for the pricing and/or reimbursement of health technologies. Because more jurisdictions request economic data, the burden on study sponsors and researchers increases. There are many reasons why the cost-effectiveness of health technologies might vary from place to place. Therefore, this report of an ISPOR Good Practices Task Force reviews what national guidelines for economic evaluation say about transferability, discusses which elements of data could potentially vary from place to place, and recommends good research practices for dealing with aspects of transferability, including strategies based on the analysis of individual patient data and based on decision-analytic modeling.

Keywords

cost-effectiveness analysis
decision-analytic models
economic clinical trials
resource allocation

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We are grateful to ISPOR for financial support and to the many ISPOR members who commented on an earlier version of this report: Michael Adena, Renée Arnold, Muhammad Ashar Malik, Federico Augustovski, Sixten Borg, Julia Bottomley, Lance Brannman, Tom Burke, Anita Burrell, Isabelle Chabot, Glenn Davies, Joseph DiCesare, Pero Draganic, Janeen DuChane, Isabelle Durand-Zaleski, Ancilla Fernandes, Anna Filonenko, Holger Gothe, Carlos Gouveia Pinto, Wolfgang Greiner, Gijs Hubben, Margaret Hux, Anna Karin, Peter Kaskel, Bengt Liljas, Andrea Manca, Doreen McBride, Mike McClure, Jacqui Miot, Jan Oltvoort, Pedro Plans-Rubio, Wolf Rogowski, Giuseppa Rudelli, Miguel Ruiz, Erik Sarpong, Mark Schulz, Paul Scuffham, Tomas Sechser, D Eldon Spackman, Hans-Martin Späth, Rosanna Tarricone, George Torrance, Peter Verplanken, F Randy Vogenberg, Adele Weston, Richard Willke, Michael Wonder, Shawn Xie and Hanna Zowall. Nevertheless, we alone are responsible for any remaining errors.

Source of financial support: ISPOR.