Economic Evaluations from the Patient Perspective: Highlighting the Need for Such a Perspective
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Healthcare Organizations, Systems, and Providers".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 September 2026 | Viewed by 1018
Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue will focus on economic evaluations and issues surrounding the patient perspective. Often, economic evaluations focus on the societal or payer perspective; however, it is common for there to be issues from the patient perspective that are important to decision-makers that are lost within these other perspectives and need to be considered in certain cases. Prime amongst these issues is affordability, since many innovations now increasingly cross the boundary between medical devices and pharmaceuticals, such that third-party payments come out of a new budget silo with different cost-sharing provisions. Thus, the next advancement within a therapeutic class could make the patient substantially more out-of-pocket compared with if they received the current standard of care. There are also a number of other issues that a patient perspective economic evaluation will highlight that are largely ignored within other perspectives. This Special Issue attempts to address these shortcomings by presenting a case for including such a perspective, at times, in health technology assessments.
Dr. Eric Nauenberg
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- economic evaluation
- patient perspective
- affordability
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