The lack of a uniform costing methodology is often considered a weakness of economic evaluations that hinders the interpretation and comparison of studies. Standardisation is therefore an important topic within the methodology of economic evaluations and in national guidelines that formulate the...

Objective: To investigate differences in attitudes, knowledge and actual use of economic evaluations in different groups of decision-makers, and to compare the results from the Netherlands with the overall European results of the European Network on Methodology and Application of Economic...

Background: Costs of inpatient days in hospitals are frequently the main drivers of total treatment costs, and their unit cost can markedly affect the outcomes of an economic evaluation. In many countries, the availability of unit cost data is limited and unit costs are often based on data from...