OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Health Economics Review is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2020-04-01 to 2024-04-01.)

Article	Citations
COVID-19 and the efficiency of health systems in Europe	56
Cost analysis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD): a systematic review	53
Health system efficiency in OECD countries: dynamic network DEA approach	31
Micro-costing in health and medicine: a critical appraisal	29
Hospitalization budget impact during the COVID-19 pandemic in Spain	25
COVID-19 healthcare cost and length of hospital stay in Turkey: retrospective analysis from the first peak of the pandemic	23
Using discrete choice experiments to measure preferences for hard to observe choice attributes to inform health policy decisions	23
Considering the societal perspective in economic evaluations: a systematic review in the case of depression	17
How innovation can be defined, evaluated and rewarded in health technology assessment	16
Health economic evaluation of an internet intervention for depression (deprexis), a randomized controlled trial	15
Epidemics, pandemics and income inequality	15
Which factors increase informal care hours and societal costs among caregivers of people with dementia? A systematic review of Resource Utilization in Dementia (RUD)	15
Application study of the EQ-5D-5L in oncology: linking self-reported quality of life of patients with advanced or metastatic colorectal cancer to clinical data from a German tumor registry	14
Determinants of healthcare seeking and out-of-pocket expenditures in a “free” healthcare system: evidence from rural Malawi	14
Systematic review and validity assessment of methods used in discrete choice experiments of primary healthcare professionals	13
A systematic review and meta-analysis of unmet needs for healthcare and long-term care among older people	13
The comparison of catastrophic health expenditure and its inequality between urban and rural households in China	12
Using point-of-care diagnostic testing for improved antibiotic prescription: an economic model	12
Economic burden of lung cancer in Turkey: a cost of illness study from payer perspective	11
Can adaptive clinical trials help to solve the productivity crisis of the pharmaceutical industry? - a scenario analysis	11
Practices of decision making in priority setting and resource allocation: a scoping review and narrative synthesis of existing frameworks	11
A cost-effectiveness analysis model of Preventicus atrial fibrillation screening from the point of view of statutory health insurance in Germany	11
Cardiovascular drug shortages in Lebanon: a broken heart	10
Analysis on the equity differential on household healthcare financing in developing countries: empirical evidence from Tanzania, East Africa	10
Endogenous health risks, poverty traps, and the roles of health insurance in poverty alleviation	10

Food insecurity and health outcomes during the coronavirus pandemic in South Africa: a longitudinal study	10
Health economic evaluations comparing faecal microbiota transplantation with antibiotics for treatment of recurrent Clostridioides difficile infection: a systematic review	10
How can a joint European health technology assessment provide an ‘additional benefit’ over the current standard of national assessments?	10
Trends in and drivers of healthcare expenditure in the English NHS: a retrospective analysis	9
The fragile healthcare system in Lebanon: sounding the alarm about its possible collapse	9
An equity analysis on the household costs of accessing and utilising maternal and child health care services in Tanzania	9
Patient and health system costs of managing pregnancy and birth-related complications in sub-Saharan Africa: a systematic review	9
The impact of social, national and community-based health insurance on health care utilization for mental, neurological and substance-use disorders in low- and middle-income countries: a systematic re	8
Advancing universal health coverage in the COVID-19 era: an assessment of public health services technical efficiency and applied cost allocation in Cambodia	8
Convergence in public health expenditure across the Sub-Saharan African countries: does club convergence matter?	8
Economic evaluation of strategies against coronavirus: a systematic review	8
Preference-based measures of health-related quality of life in congenital mobility impairment: a systematic review of validity and responsiveness	8
Effect of COVID-19 on demand for healthcare in Togo	8
Health insurance coverage in Ethiopia: financial protection in the Era of sustainable development goals (SDGs)	8
Does less working time improve life satisfaction? Evidence from European Social Survey	8
Forgone healthcare and financial burden due to out-of-pocket payments in Bangladesh: a multilevel analysis	7
The effect of a mystery shopper scheme on prescribing behavior in primary care: Results from a field experiment	7
Cost-effectiveness analysis of sintilimab plus pemetrexed and platinum versus chemotherapy alone as first-line treatment in metastatic non-squamous non–small cell lung cancer in China	7
Exploring dynamics in catastrophic health care expenditure in Nigeria	7
Determinants of Technical Efficiency in Public Hospitals: The Case of Saudi Arabia	7
Quality of public health insurance and individuals’ consumption structure upgrades: evidence from China	7
Health economic evaluation of digital nursing technologies: a review of methodological recommendations	6
The addition of neoadjuvant pertuzumab for the treatment of HER2+ breast cancer: a cost estimate with real-world data	6
Factors related to excessive out-of-pocket expenditures among the ultra-poor after discontinuity of PBF: a cross-sectional study in Burkina Faso	6
The cost-utility of early use of high-flow nasal cannula in bronchiolitis	6
Costing of helicopter emergency services- a strategic simulation based on the example of a German rural region	6
Is greater generic competition also linked to lower drug prices in South Korea?	6
The costs associated with stroke care continuum: a systematic review	6
Multiple effects health economic evaluation of the Ahead of The Game Study for mental health promotion in sporting club communities	6
Budgeting challenges on the path towards universal health coverage: the case of Benin	5
Health shock, medical insurance and financial asset allocation: evidence from CHFS in China	5
Assessing the efficiency of health systems in achieving the universal health coverage goal: evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa	5
The impact of hospital price and quality transparency tools on healthcare spending: a systematic review	5
Investing preventive care and economic development in ageing societies: empirical evidences from OECD countries	5
Hospital costs associated with post-traumatic stress disorder in somatic patients: a retrospective study	5
The impact of reimbursement negotiations on cost and availability of new pharmaceuticals: evidence from an online experiment	5
Nonparametric estimation of a primary care production function in urban Brazil	5
Comparative study of the effect of National Health Insurance Scheme on use of delivery and antenatal care services between rural and urban women in Ghana	4
Analytical methods to assess the impacts of activity-based funding (ABF): a scoping review	4
Arrangements with the NHS for providing healthcare services: do they improve financial performance of private for-profit hospitals in Spain?	4
Overcoming COVID-19 in China despite shortcomings of the public health system: what can we learn?	4
Cost-effectiveness of a photopethysmographic procedure for screening for atrial fibrillation in 6 European countries	4
Correction to: Health economic evaluation of an internet intervention for depression (deprexis), a randomized controlled trial	4
Structural changes in the Russian health care system: do they match European trends?	4
Shadow and extended shadow cost sharing associated to informal long-term care: the case of Spain	4
Distributed education enables distributed economic impact: the economic contribution of the Northern Ontario School of Medicine to communities in Canada	4
Cost of provision of essential health Services in Public Health Centers of Jimma zone, Southwest Ethiopia; a provider perspective, the pointer for major area of public expenditure	4
The effect of altruism on COVID-19 vaccination rates	3
Economic analysis of sugammadex versus neostigmine for reversal of neuromuscular blockade for laparoscopic surgery in China	3
Development of a pharmacoeconomic registry: an example using hormonal contraceptives	3

Cost-effectiveness analysis of Vaborem in Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales (CRE) -Klebsiella pneumoniae infections in Italy	3
Distributional health and financial consequences of increased cigarette tax in Iran: extended cost-effectiveness analysis	3
Commentary: on the effects of health expenditure on infant mortality in sub-Saharan Africa: evidence from panel data analysis	3
Quality of life and cost consequence of delays in endovascular treatment for acute ischemic stroke in China	3
Pooled coverage of community based health insurance scheme enrolment in Ethiopia, systematic review and meta-analysis, 2016–2020	3
The impact of medical insurance on family financial support: evidence from CHARLS in China	3
The economic impact of anastomotic leak after colorectal cancer surgery	3
Preferences of patients with asthma or COPD for treatments in pulmonary rehabilitation	3
Effects of health insurance on patient demand for physician services	3
The healthcare inequality among middle-aged and older adults in China: a comparative analysis between the full samples and the homogeneous population	3
Using predicted length of stay to define treatment and model costs in hospitalized adults with serious illness: an evaluation of palliative care	3
Can financial payments incentivize short-term smoking cessation in orthopaedic trauma patients? Evidence from a discrete choice experiment	3
Cost of a lymphedema treatment mandate - 16 years of experience in the Commonwealth of Virginia	3
Out-of-pocket payments and catastrophic expenditures due to traffic injuries in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso	3
What drives different treatment choices? Investigation of hospital ownership, system membership and competition	3
The role of Iran's context for the development of health technology assessment: challenges and solutions	3
Efficiency and management factors: finding the balance in Thalassaemia care centres	3
Out- Of- Pocket health expenditure and household consumption patterns in Benin: Is there a crowding out effect?	3
The role of risk preferences: voluntary health insurance in rural Tanzania	3
Effect of adolescent female fertility and healthcare spending on maternal and neonatal mortality in low resource setting of South Asia	3
Cost of care for persons with dementia: using a discrete-time Markov chain approach with administrative and clinical data from the dementia service Centres in Austria	3
Custom-made health-care: an experimental investigation	3
Grocery food taxes and U.S. county obesity and diabetes rates	2
Mendelian randomization: estimation of inpatient hospital costs attributable to obesity	2
Rehabilitation in the long-term care insurance domain: a scoping review	2
Feasibility properties of the EQ-5D-3L and 5L in the general population: evidence from the GP Patient Survey on the impact of age	2
Longitudinal changes and determinants of parental willingness to pay for the prevention of childhood overweight and obesity	2
How much do government and households spend on an episode of hospitalisation in India? A comparison for public and private hospitals in Chhattisgarh state	2
Shaping a research agenda to ensure a successful European health technology assessment: insights generated during the inaugural convention of the European Access Academy	2
The economic cost of implementing antigen-based rapid diagnostic tests for COVID-19 screening in high-risk transmission settings: evidence from Germany	2
Competition and quality of care under regulated fees: evidence from Ghana	2
Economic burden of chronic migraine in OECD countries: a systematic review	2
Telemedical emergency services: central or decentral coordination?	2
Direct cost of cochlear implants in Germany – a strategic simulation	2
Innovative and conventional “conservative” technologies for the treatment of uterine fibroids in Italy: a multidimensional assessment	2
Attributes in stated preference elicitation studies on colorectal cancer screening and their relative importance for decision-making among screenees: a systematic review	2
A choice experiment assessment of stated early response to COVID-19 vaccines in the USA	2
Time-to-event analysis in economic evaluations: a comparison of modelling methods to assess the cost-effectiveness of transplanting a marginal quality kidney	2
Economic effects of healthy ageing: functional limitation, forgone wages, and medical and long-term care costs	2
An assessment of out of pocket payments in public sector health facilities under the free maternal healthcare policy in Ghana	2
Predicting the cost of COVID-19 treatment and its drivers in Indonesia: analysis of claims data of COVID-19 in 2020-2021	2
Comparison of the cost of illness of primary liver cancer between Japan and Taiwan	2
Hospital unit costs in Jordan: insights from a country facing competing health demands and striving for universal health coverage	2
Transcatheter aortic valve implantation against conventional aortic valve replacement surgery in high-risk patients with aortic stenosis; a cost-effectiveness analysis	2
Does poverty increase COVID-19 in Africa? A cross-country analysis	2
Comorbidities and HCV coinfection in the management of HIV+ patients: evidence from the Italian clinical practice	2
Economic evaluation of HIV testing options for low-prevalence high-income countries: a systematic review	2