title: Economic evaluation of implementation strategies in health care.
abstract: Economic evaluations can inform decisions about the efficiency and allocation of resources to implementation strategies-strategies explicitly designed to inform care providers and patients about the best available research evidence and to enhance its use in their practices. These strategies are increasingly popular in health care, especially in light of growing concerns about quality of care and limits on resources. But such concerns have hardly motivated health authorities and other decision-makers to spend on some form of economic evaluation in their assessments of implementation strategies. This editorial addresses the importance of economic evaluation in the context of implementation science-particularly, how these analyses can be most efficiently incorporated into decision-making processes about implementation strategies.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Health Policy & Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. thoomans@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu.|Section of Hospital Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA. thoomans@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu.
authors.forename: Ties
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hoomans
authors.affiliation: Institute of Health Policy & Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. severens@bmg.eur.nl.|Institute of Medical Technology Assessment (iMTA), Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. severens@bmg.eur.nl.
authors.forename: Johan L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Severens
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003625:Data Collection; D003661:Decision Support Techniques; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics*; D006284:Health Plan Implementation / Q000191:economics*; D006291:Health Policy / Q000191:economics*; D006801:Humans; D019057:Quality-Adjusted Life Years