Each health economic analysis starts with clinical data. But if your sample does not provide mature data, how can you use this data as reliably as possible?
To what level is it relevant to include costs in the analysis? For quite a few parameters, it is clear that they can have a decisive influence on your analysis, however, sometimes the effort you have to put into looking up data is not reflected in a meaningful impact on the results.
Before you introduce an innovation, you will collect data on a relatively limited scale, after which you will compare this to a similar dataset. But how can you make a good comparison and which information can you take into account?
Within healthcare, there is continuous innovation. New technologies are made available and (partly) replace existing resources or care. But how can you measure the financial value of innovation?
