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Oral diseases are expensive to treat and health planners require reliable information to allocate health care resources effectively to combat oral diseases. Cost utility analysis (CUA) is a type of economic evaluation used extensively to assess the value for money of healthcare interventions. We performed a systematic literature review to assess the usage of CUA in oral health interventions and to evaluate the methods used. This review identified 23 CUA of oral health interventions published during 2000 and 2015.
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Our findings show that the use of CUAs in evaluation of oral health interventions has been increasing over time. Except for 2, all publications included in the present review were able to provide conclusions regarding the most cost-effective intervention among the different options compared, which will assist in resource allocation and in health care decision making. The majority of the articles followed the standard methods of reporting health economic evaluations as assessed by CHEERS checklist.
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I hope this article provide an insight of the usage of CUA in oral health. CUA is the most recommended technique by the health technology assessment agencies specially in developed countries to evaluate health economic aspect of health care interventions.
Ruvini Hettiarachchi
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This page is a summary of: The cost-effectiveness of oral health interventions: A systematic review of cost-utility analyses, Community Dentistry And Oral Epidemiology, September 2017, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/cdoe.12336.
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