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Advantages of the Net Benefit Regression Framework for Economic Evaluations of Interventions in the Workplace

2014; Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Volume: 56; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1097/jom.0000000000000130

1536-5948

Jeffrey S. Hoch, Carolyn S. Dewa,

Healthcare cost, quality, practices

Economic evaluations commonly accompany trials of new treatments or interventions; however, regression methods and their corresponding advantages for the analysis of cost-effectiveness data are not well known.To illustrate regression-based economic evaluation, we present a case study investigating the cost-effectiveness of a collaborative mental health care program for people receiving short-term disability benefits for psychiatric disorders. We implement net benefit regression to illustrate its strengths and limitations.Net benefit regression offers a simple option for cost-effectiveness analyses of person-level data. By placing economic evaluation in a regression framework, regression-based techniques can facilitate the analysis and provide simple solutions to commonly encountered challenges.Economic evaluations of person-level data (eg, from a clinical trial) should use net benefit regression to facilitate analysis and enhance results.