European Healthcare and Social Cost Database

  1. Espín, Jaime 1
  2. Rovira, Joan 1
  3. Epstein, David 2
  4. De Labry Lima, Antonio Olry 1
  5. Mochón, Leticia García 1
  6. Spacirova, Zuzana 1
  1. 1 Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública
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    Escuela Andaluza de Salud Pública

    Granada, España

  2. 2 Universidad de Granada
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    Universidad de Granada

    Granada, España

    ROR https://ror.org/04njjy449

Editor: Zenodo

Year of publication: 2021

Type: Dataset

CC BY 4.0

DOI: 10.5281/ZENODO.4772622 lock_openOpen access editor

Abstract

The rationale for developing the EU HCCD for use in Health Technology Assessment (HTA) across countries is to provide a common dataset of international costs, which can feed into health economic evaluations carried out by transferring economic evaluation analysis and models across countries. Defining a core dataset of costs for use in HTA across countries enables analyses that try to understand the variation in costs within and across countries (taking into account the differences between the healthcare systems and other factors). Additionally, it makes it easier to carry out multi-country studies and to adapt economic evaluation studies from country to country by saving human resources time (and consequently costs) in the task of looking for healthcare costs.