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AUTISM RESEARCH
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WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/aur.3014
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autism; cost effectiveness analysis; economic evaluation; interventions
Economic evaluation is essential to optimize the provision of services and programs for persons with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) within budget constraints. However, there is a scarcity of economic evaluations in this population due to challenges in conducting such evaluations and lack of suitable guidance. This commentary addresses these challenges and provides recommendations to improve the quality of economic evaluations for program funding decision-making in ASD.
Economic evaluation is used to determine the optimal provision of services and programs under budget constraints and to inform public and private payer funding decisions. To maximize value-for-money in the design and delivery of programs and services for persons with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), it's essential to generate high-quality economic evidence to inform budget allocation. There is a paucity however, of economic evaluations of interventions for ASD. This is due in part to challenges in conducting economic evaluations in this population and the lack of guidance on suitable approaches. These challenges are related to the inherent heterogeneity of the autistic population; establishing short- and long-term effectiveness; measurement of costs and the availability of valid instruments for collecting economic data; the appropriateness of outcomes for use in economic evaluation; and achieving statistical power. This commentary addresses a lack of awareness and needed guidance on these issues by discussing the challenges and providing recommendations for how economic evaluations in ASD could be improved to generate high-quality evidence for program funding decision-making.
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