Adaptation of cost-effectiveness analyses to a single country: the case of bariatric surgery for obesity and overweight.

CONCLUSIONS: Nearly all studies found bariatric surgery to be a cost saving or cost-effective compared with conventional treatment. The adaptation of existing cost-effectiveness analyses cannot be considered to give accurate ICERs for Switzerland, but may have achieved an approximation of cost-effectiveness levels to be expected for Switzerland. It has made the results of international cost-effectiveness studies reported for different countries and in different currencies more comparable, and may be useful for individual countries in which financing or capacity for economic analyses is scarce. PMID: 29894556 [PubMed - in process]

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Source: Swiss Medical Weekly - June 12, 2018 Category: General Medicine Authors: Ademi Z, Tomonaga Y, van Stiphout J, Glinz D, Gloy V, Raatz H, Bucher HC, Schwenkglenks M Tags: Swiss Med Wkly Source Type: research