SHEER: Good practices for incorporating family and caregiver spillovers into health economic evaluations

Illnesses impact not only the patients, but oftentimes impact caregivers and family members as well. However, most economic analyses do not incorporate a diseases’ spillover impacts on caregivers. …a recent review of NICE evaluations revealed that only 3% of technology appraisals included caregiver health-related quality of life (HRQoL) in cost-utility analyses (CUAs). Similarly, Lamsal [2022]…

Productivity Spillovers: The Case of AMI

The Healthcare Economist has written a lot about the fact that there exists significant regional variation in health care spending.  Is this due to a provider cultural norms?  Or are other factors at play? A paper by Chandra and Staiger (2007) claim that productivity spillovers may explain this results.  I summarize their proposition in more…