REFLECTIONS ON THE NICE DECISION TO REJECT PATIENT PRODUCTION LOSSES

OBJECTIVES: Patient production losses occur when individuals' capacities to work, whether paid or unpaid, are impaired by illness, treatment, disability, or death. There is controversy about whether and how to include patient production losses in economic evaluations in health care. Patient production losses have not previously been considered when evaluating medications for reimbursement under the U.K. National Health Service. Proposals for …