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Comparing costing results in across country economic evaluations: the use of technology specific purchasing power parities

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  • Sarah Wordsworth

    (Health Economics Research Centre, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK)

  • Anne Ludbrook

    (Health Economics Research Unit, University of Aberdeen, Aberdeen, UK)

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The number of economic evaluations conducted on a multinational basis is increasing. Therefore, techniques are required to compare the results of such studies in a meaningful manner. This paper explores different approaches to comparing across country cost data applied to a European study of dialysis therapy for end-stage renal disease. A price and volume index is created at the level of the individual health care technology and compared to an exchange rate conversion and published purchasing power parities (PPPs). Both exchange rate and PPP conversions when published rates are used fail to accurately reflect the true resource use of the applied health care example. These differences can be related to specific issues of input mix and price variation. Alternatively, the use of technology specific PPPs provided a more robust approach for international comparisons and also have the potential for use in multi-centre economic evaluations within the same country. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

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  • Sarah Wordsworth & Anne Ludbrook, 2005. "Comparing costing results in across country economic evaluations: the use of technology specific purchasing power parities," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 14(1), pages 93-99.
    • Handle: RePEc:wly:hlthec:v:14:y:2005:i:1:p:93-99
    DOI: 10.1002/hec.913
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    1. Avi Dor & Mark V. Pauly & Margaret A. Eichleay & Philip J. Held, 2007. "End-stage Renal Disease and Economic Incentives: The International Study of Health Care Organization and Financing," NBER Working Papers 13125, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    2. Jonas Schreyögg, 2008. "A micro-costing approach to estimating hospital costs for appendectomy in a Cross-European context," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 17(S1), pages 59-69.
    3. Just, Paul Michael & Riella, Miguel Carlos & Tschosik, Elizabeth Ann & Noe, Leslie Lyle & Bhattacharyya, Samir Kumar & de Charro, Frank, 2008. "Economic evaluations of dialysis treatment modalities," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 86(2-3), pages 163-180, May.
    4. David Epstein & Anne Mason & Andrea Manca, 2008. "The hospital costs of care for stroke in nine European countries," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 17(S1), pages 21-31.
    5. Michael Harvey & Michael Gaies & Lisa Prosser, 2015. "US and International In-Hospital Costs of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation: a Systematic Review," Applied Health Economics and Health Policy, Springer, vol. 13(4), pages 341-357, August.
    6. Jonas Schreyögg & Oliver Tiemann & Tom Stargardt & Reinhard Busse, 2008. "Cross-country comparisons of costs: the use of episode-specific transitive purchasing power parities with standardised cost categories," Health Economics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., vol. 17(S1), pages 95-103.
    7. Avi Dor & Mark Pauly & Margaret Eichleay & Philip Held, 2007. "End-stage renal disease and economic incentives: the International Study of Health Care Organization and Financing (ISHCOF)," International Journal of Health Economics and Management, Springer, vol. 7(2), pages 73-111, September.

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