Lawrenceville,
NJ, USA—September 23, 2019—Value
in Health, the official
journal of ISPOR—the professional society for health economics
and outcomes research, announced today the publication
of an analysis showing that while value assessment frameworks are moving closer
to meeting the challenge of accurately measuring value and reliably informing
healthcare decisions, more progress is needed before widespread adoption and
use. The study, “As
Value Assessment Frameworks Evolve, Are They Finally Ready for Primetime?,” was published in the September
2019 issue of Value
in Health. An accompanying commentary by Peter J. Neumann, ScD, Center for the Evaluation of Value
and Risk in Health at the Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy
Studies at Tufts Medical Center, Boston, MA, USA, appears in the same issue of Value in Health.
Authors Dubois and Westrich briefly describe the evolution of
the value assessment framework landscape in the United States, including new
entrants and updated frameworks. To assess whether this evolution successfully
advances the field of value assessment, they examined the current frameworks
actively conducting assessments—those from the Institute for Clinical and
Economic Review, Innovation and Value Initiative, and National Comprehensive
Cancer Network—relative to 6 key considerations for improvement. These 6
considerations were identified via a prior peer-reviewed analysis based on the
National Pharmaceutical Council’s Guiding Practices for
Patient-Centered Value Assessment. They include:
- Value assessments should be transparent and reproducible
- Value is dynamic and needs to be considered and captured as such
- Value assessments should adopt broad system perspectives in what
they assess and how they assess it
- Value assessments should incorporate what is important to
patients, even if the end user for a framework is the payer
- A diversity of value assessment approaches that reflect the
differing needs of stakeholders should remain; value assessments should reflect
user preferences
- Assessments of value should be separate from assessments of
budget impact and affordability
The analysis found that value assessment frameworks are moving
closer to meeting the challenge of accurately measuring value and reliably
informing healthcare decisions, but more progress is needed before widespread
adoption and use.
“Our investigation shows that the field of value assessment has
advanced in most areas,” said author Kimberly Westrich, MA, Vice President of
Health Services Research, The National Pharmaceutical Council, Washington, DC,
USA. “Indeed, each of the 6 considerations has been addressed in some way by at
least one framework. However, more progress is needed
before the widespread adoption of frameworks for decision making. Users must be aware that these assessments have limitations, and
wholesale adoption is not wise. While value assessments are potential inputs
that can be considered for healthcare decision making, none of them should be
the sole input for these decisions. Considering the limitations, they should,
at most, be only one of many tools in the toolbox.”
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