Dear Colleagues,
Has anyone come across any publications that evaluate (all of these outcomes) QALYs + environmental assessment + financial costs of any health technologies including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, public health interventions or digital health technologies?
If so, please can you kindly share the resource location?
Many thanks in anticipation of your help
Kind regards
Mel
Hi Mel, have you had a look through the CSH Resource Library, or the information linking through to case studies here https://networks.sustainablehealthcare.org.uk/CaseStudies
We looked at LCAs, cost and DALYs in this paper
Duane, B., Lyne, A., Parle, R. et al. The environmental impact of community caries prevention - part 3: water fluoridation. Br Dent J 233, 303–307 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41415-022-4251-5
Many thanks Paul, this is fantastic! I am a big fan of using DALYs and think we should be going down the route of using them more for HTA rather than QALYs...we have more evidence and resource for this outcome rather than having to use a lot more resources to quantify QALYs for health technologies. We already have the technology to get on with quantifying human health impact of technologies and need to get on with framework development in HTA. Many thanks again for sharing. Kind regards, Mel
I recently also found this paper: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11367-016-1246-y and this one too: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/19368158/ if they are helpful? Rob
Hi Mel a few of us are trying to shift 25% of the acute medicines spend o health creation (aka blue/green/social prescribing). We need shout loudly about financial sustainability especially about scaling up work here showing NHS could save over £600 million per year. https://www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/health-projects-save-nhs-time-and-m…
Hi Mel
This was my attempt before I joined the NHS, looking at QALYs and environmental outcomes of different medical interventions for obesity, triggered by the recent semaglutide study rshttps://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s40258-023-00839-z
We tried to analyse the outputs in some different ways across cost, QALYs and environmental outcomes
Many thanks Rachael, you reminded me to have a look and it has been very resourceful. Kind regards, Mel