- Health care resources are finite. Therefore, information about both costs and effectiveness are essential to making evidence-based decisions about competing health care interventions.
- Decision-makers in the NHS need easy access to reliable information on cost-effectiveness to make judgements about which types of health care offer value for money.
- Information about the cost-effectivess of care can be difficult of identify, appraise and interpret.
- Easy to access critical appraisals of economic studies are available in the NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED). The database is available free of charge on the Internet http://www.crd.york.ac.uk/crdweb/
- Alternatively, the database can be searched on your behalf by CRD staff (tel: 01904-321846 or e-mail: crd-info@york.ac.uk)