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...