title: Economic evaluation strategies in telehealth: Obtaining a more holistic valuation of telehealth interventions.
abstract: Telehealth is an emerging area of medical research. Its translation from conception, to research and into practice requires tailored research and economic evaluation methods. Due to their nature telehealth interventions exhibit a number of extra-clinical benefits that are relevant when valuing their costs and outcomes. By incorporating methods to measure societal values such as patient preference and willingness-to-pay, a more holistic value can be placed on the extra-clinical outcomes associated with telehealth and evaluations can represent new interventions more effectively. Cost-benefit analysis is a method by which relevant costs and outcomes in telehealth can be succinctly valued and compared. When health economic methods are conducted using holistic approaches such as cost-benefit analysis they can facilitate the translation of telehealth research into policy and practice.
authors: 1 School of Pharmacy, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
authors: Centaine
authors: C
authors: Snoswell
authors: 2 Centre for Online Health, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.
authors: Anthony C
authors: AC
authors: Smith
authors: 3 School of Medicine & the Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.
authors: Paul A
authors: PA
authors: Scuffham
authors: 1 School of Pharmacy, The University of Queensland, Brisbane, Australia.|3 School of Medicine & the Menzies Health Institute Queensland, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia.|4 Health Economics Group, Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK.
authors: Jennifer A
authors: JA
authors: Whitty
mesh_terms: D002908:Chronic Disease / Q000191:economics*; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D019468:Disease Management; D006801:Humans; D017216:Telemedicine / Q000191:economics*
keywords: Telehealth; economic evaluation