Hungarian Methodological Guidelines for Economic Evaluation of Healthcare Interventions
These guidelines provide the official standards for conducting economic evaluations of healthcare interventions in Hungary, especially for reimbursement decisions. They define how studies should be designed and reported to support health technology assessment.
At a glance
Use when
Conducting economic evaluations for HTA and reimbursement applications in Hungary
Avoid when
Applying in non-Hungarian contexts where different methodological standards prevail
Inputs
Healthcare intervention data, cost data, outcome measures (e.g. QALYs), epidemiological parameters
Outputs
Economic evaluation report compliant with Hungarian reference-case standards, including incremental cost-effectiveness ratios (ICERs)
How it works
Foundational methodological framework established by the Hungarian HTA community and published in the European Journal of Health Economics (Gulacsi et al., 2002). Specifies reference-case requirements for pharmacoeconomic evaluations submitted for HTA and reimbursement purposes in Hungary, including study perspective, time horizon, discounting, and analytical methods.
- HTA domains
- Clinical Effectiveness, Costs & Economic Evaluation, Organisational aspects
- Assumptions
- A reference-case perspective is required for reimbursement submissions; willingness-to-pay thresholds apply; long-term outcomes may be modeled
- Strengths
- Provides standardized, nationally accepted criteria for HTA submissions in Hungary; enhances transparency and comparability of economic evaluations
- Limitations
- May not incorporate latest international methodological advances since foundational (2002); limited flexibility for novel study designs
Questions this answers
References & sources
Similar by meaning
- Guidelines for the Economic Evaluation of Health Technologies in Ireland (HIQA)
- Hungarian relative-QALY-gain stratified cost-effectiveness threshold framework (1.5-3x GDP)
- Dutch Guideline for Economic Evaluations in Healthcare
- Guidelines for the Economic Evaluation of Health Technologies: Canada — 4th Edition
- Spanish recommendations on economic evaluation of health technologies (López-Bastida guideline)
Beta record. Based on the original catalogue summary; primary-source enrichment pending.