In many countries, health care reforms are being made with the purpose of stimulating actors to make economically sound decisions. Recent attempts in The Netherlands encompass the development and introduction of integrated health care arrangements. Since these arrangements are directly tailored...

Given health budget constraints, it becomes increasingly important to determine whether implementing guidelines to change clinical practice is worthwhile. We provide a model (1) to assess the economic impact of non-adherence to guideline recommendations by patients and health care professionals...

Good decisions on which health interventions to invest can be facilitated by high quality evaluations of the cost-effectiveness of interventions. Although there are several reviews of evaluations of the cost-effectiveness of smoking cessation programs, the reviews have had little to say about...