Review Article
Systematic Review and Critical Analysis of Cost Studies Associated with Parkinson’s Disease
Table 1
Types of economic evaluation and their main characteristics.
| Type of economic analysis | Costs | Advantages | Disadvantages |
| Cost minimization (CMA) | Monetary | This technique only measures costs | It does not describe results, and it has little applicability to health | Cost-effectiveness (CEA) | Monetary | It allows comparisons between health programs | Difficulty in comparison of results | Cost-benefit (CBA) | Monetary | This analysis allows comparisons between strategies because it works with the same monetary unit | Difficulty of valuing human life | Cost-utility (CUA) | Monetary | This analysis considers the level of well-being and preferences of the individual | The scales of measurement of quality are arbitrary |
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