Mind the costs, too: towards better cost-effectiveness analyses of PBF programmes

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Chi, Y-Ling
Gad, Mohamed
Bauhoff, Sebastian
Chalkidou, Kalipso
Megiddo, Itamar
Ruiz, Francis
Smith, Peter
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The evidence surrounding the cost-effectiveness of performance-based financing (PBF) is weak, and it is not clear how PBF compares with alternative interventions in terms of its value for money.

  • It is important to fill this evidence gap as countries transition from aid and face increasing budget constraints and competing priorities for the use of their domestic resources.

  • In conducting cost-effectiveness analyses of PBF, researchers should be mindful of the identification, measurement and valuation of costs and effects, provide justification for the scope of their studies, and specify appropriate comparators and decision rules.

  • We also recommend the use of a reference case to lay out the principles, preferred methodological choices and reporting standards, as well as a checklist.

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BMJ Global Health

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5

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© Author(s) (or their employer(s)) 2018. Re-use permitted under CC BY. Published by BMJ. This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 Unported (CC BY 4.0) license, which permits others to copy, redistribute, remix, transform and build upon this work for any purpose, provided the original work is properly cited, a link to the licence is given, and indication of whether changes were made. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

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Applied economics

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Chi, Y-L; Gad, M; Bauhoff, S; Chalkidou, K; Megiddo, I; Ruiz, F; Smith, P, Mind the costs, too: towards better cost-effectiveness analyses of PBF programmes, BMJ Global Health, 2018, 3 (5), pp. e000994:1-e000994:3

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