Affecting patients with work-related problems by educational training of their GPs: a cost-effectiveness study

Background Assessing the cost effectiveness of training aimed at increasing general practitioners’ (GP) work awareness and patients’ work-related self-efficacy and quality of life. Methods A cluster randomized controlled trial in twenty-six GP practices in the southeast of the Netherlands with 32 participating GPs. GPs working in an intervention...

A systematic review of the quality and scope of economic evaluations in child oral health research

Background Economic evaluations provide policy makers with information to facilitate efficient resource allocation. To date, the quality and scope of economic evaluations in the field of child oral health has not been evaluated. Furthermore, whilst the involvement of children in research has been actively encouraged in recent years, the success...

Trial-based economic evaluations in occupational health: Principles, methods, and recommendations

To allocate available resources as efficiently as possible, decision makers need information on the relative economic merits of occupational health and safety (OHS) interventions. Economic evaluations can provide this information by comparing the costs and consequences of alternatives. Nevertheless, only a few of the studies that consider the...

Web-based guided self-help for employees with depressive symptoms (Happy@Work): Design of a randomized controlled trial

Background: Depressive disorders are highly prevalent in the working population and are associated with excessive costs for both society and companies. Effective treatment for employees with depressive symptoms in occupational health care is limited. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of an...

Jeugdgezondheidszorg: Veel preventie voor weinig geld [Youth healthcare: Much prevention for little money]

As part of government policy, the 'Youth healthcare' prevention programme is offered free of charge to all children aged 0 to 19 years who are resident in the Netherlands. It consists of a programme of primary prevention (including vaccinations, information and advice) and secondary prevention (screening, surveillance, early diagnosis) and...

Reactie: Economische evaluatie binnen de cardiologie : Achtergrond en toepassing [Economic evaluation within cardiology : Background and application]

Use of societal criteria in evaluation of medical technology assessment research proposals in the Netherlands: Development and testing of a checklist

Rising health care costs, and the recognition that medical technology is a significant contributor to these costs, have provided the stimulus to develop medical technology assessment programmes in the Netherlands. The most important programme in this field is the Investigational Medicine Programme of the Dutch Sick Funds Council. So far,...

Strategies for successful evaluation and policy-making toward health care technology on the move: The case of medical lasers

Evaluating new health care technology that is rapidly diffusing is one of the greatest challenges to researchers and policy-makers. If no evaluation is done until the technology is mature, evaluation will not influence processes of diffusion. If evaluation is done early, it may be irrelevant when it is completed because of developments in the...