Neurology, Health Economics, and Outcomes

This session’s primary objectives were to describe: (1) why it is important for neurologists to understand the fundamental approaches to formal cost-effectiveness analyses in healthcare; (2) the importance of evidence syntheses to the generation of quality of care measures in neurology and their application for epilepsy; (3) the advantages and disadvantages of large databases for cross-national studies of quality and outcomes of neurologic care; and (4) the opportunities and challenges for practicing neurologists and outcomes researchers with the overall goal of improving the quality of care we deliver in a way that can be sustained under the current, nearly universal economic scenarios of rising healthcare costs.