Aims and Scope

The Journal of Medical Economics publishes high-quality economic assessments of novel therapeutic and device interventions for an international audience.  These include:

• economic analyses (in the form of cost minimisation, cost effectiveness, cost utility, cost benefits, cost consequence, cost of illness, burden of disease)
• health economics methodology
• discussions on policy issues
• resource utilisation studies
• disease management
• modelling studies
• meta-analyses of randomised controlled trials, outcomes and clinical trials data

JME also specialises in the publication of studies that determine the effectiveness of medical treatment, involving measurements of therapeutic and/or  preventative outcomes. Methods employed in the studies commonly involve sets of patients with comparable clinical characteristics and include measurements of mortality, morbidity and patient-reported outcomes (including the patient’s quality-of-life, functional status and satisfaction with health care).