From: Economic evaluations in water-fluoridation: a scoping review
Step 1. Define objective of the economic evaluation | |
Step 2. Define economic evaluation framework | |
• Perspective of the economic analysis | |
• Alternatives being compared | |
• Time horizon | |
Step 3. Determine costs and benefits of alternatives | |
• Define all activities | |
• Specify measurements | |
• Collect cost data | |
• Calculate costs | |
• Discount | |
• Define outcomes | |
• Select evaluation design | |
• Collect data | |
• Analyze data | |
Step 4. Relate costs to outcomes | |
• Ratio | |
Step 5. Adjust for uncertainties | |
• Sensitivity analysis | |
Step 6. Summarize, Interpret, and report findings |