Denkbeeldige Wereld: The New Dutch Guidelines for Economic Evaluations in Healthcare

In 2016 the Dutch National Health Care Institute (Zorginstituut Nederland) published a new guidance for economic evaluations in healthcare to support reimbursement decisions. These Guidelines update and replace three previously published guidelines covering pharmacoeconomic evaluation, outcomes research and costing. The purpose of this commentary is to consider the merits of these new Guidelines from the perspective of modeled claims which meet the standards of normal science: credibility, evaluation and replication in the treatment of target patient populations. In evaluating the merits of th... Mehr ...