Table 2.
Study | Country | Study design | Type of economic evaluation | Perspective | Population | Intervention | Comparison | Outcomes | Conclusions |
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Bradford et al. (14) | Australia | Retrospective | Cost minimization | Children's Health Service (state-wide service) | Children requiring palliative services (sample size not specified, only number of consultations n=95) | Home Telehealth Programme video consultations | Usual care (as either home visit or outpatient department consultations) | Assumed to be equivalent irrespective of mode of service delivery | HTP Home video consultations are cost-saving compared to usual care |
Zhang and Fu (16) | USA | Randomized controlled trial | Cost-effectiveness (utility) | Society, healthcare providers and patients | Prostate cancer patients with persistent urinary incontinence (n = 336) | Biofeedback PFME + support group sessions Biofeedback PFME + one-to-one phone sessions. |
Usual care (for both Usual Care-UC and Intervention-Non-Participating-INP groups) | HRQoL (EQ-5D), QALYs | Intervention is cost-effective compared to no intervention |
van der Hout et al. (15) | Netherlands | Randomized controlled trial | Cost-utility | Societal | Survivors of head and neck cancer, colorectal cancer, breast cancer, and lymphoma (n = 625) | eHealth self-management application (Oncokompas) | Care as usual wait-list (late access to intervention) | HRQoL (EQ-5D), QALYs | The eHealth intervention has similar effectiveness and non-significantly lower costs compared to care as usual |