Woolderink, Marla, Lynch, F. L., van Asselt, A. D. I., Beecham, J., Evers, S. M. A. A., Paulus, A. T. G. and van Schayck, C. P. (2014) Methodological considerations in service use assessment for children and youth with mental health conditions; issues for economic evaluation. Administration and Policy in Mental Health and Mental Health Services Research, 42 (3). pp. 296-308. ISSN 0894-587X
Abstract
Economic evaluations are increasingly used in decision-making. Accurate measurement of service use is critical to economic evaluation. This qualitative study, based on expert interviews, aims to identify best approaches to service use measurement for child mental health conditions, and to identify problems in current methods. Results suggest considerable agreement on strengths (e.g., availability of accurate instruments to measure service use) and weaknesses, (e.g., lack of unit prices for services outside the health sector) or alternative approaches to service use measurement. Experts also identified some unresolved problems, for example the lack of uniform definitions for some mental health services.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://download.springer.com/ |
| Additional Information: | © 2014 Springer Science & Business Media New York |
| Library of Congress subject classification: | H Social Sciences > HC Economic History and Conditions H Social Sciences > HN Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform |
| Journal of Economic Literature Classification System: | I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I1 - Health > I11 - Analysis of Health Care Markets I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I1 - Health > I12 - Health Production: Nutrition, Mortality, Morbidity, Suicide, Substance Abuse and Addiction, Disability, and Economic Behavior |
| Funders: | Health Research and Development |
| Projects: | 200210002 |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Jul 2014 09:45 |
| URL: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/57711/ |
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