Handling uncertainty when performing economic evaluation of healthcare interventions.

Record Status This is a bibliographic record of a published health technology assessment from a member of INAHTA. No evaluation of the quality of this assessment has been made for the HTA database. Citation Briggs A H, Gray A M. Handling uncertainty when performing economic evaluation of healthcare interventions. Health Technology Assessment 1999; 3(2): 1-134 Authors' objectives 1. To perform a structured review of the way in which uncertainty has been handled in economic evaluation. 2. To assemble data on the actual distributional form and variance of healthcare costs, and to devise guidelines to improve current practice. In particular the focus was on the handling of cost and cost-effectiveness data.