Adventures in Hybrid Implementation-Effectiveness trials: Integrating smoking cessation treatment into healthcare settings

Sandra Japuntich, PhD
University of Minnesota Medical School

ABSTRACT:
This presentation highlights practical and innovative approaches to economic evaluations in implementation endeavors. Part I provides an overview of Delivering Implementation Strategies Cost (DISCo), a pragmatic micro-costing tool that separates delivery and participation costs while outlining practical considerations for measuring implementation costs. Part II discusses economic evaluation approaches beyond traditional cost-effectiveness analysis, focusing on underused or novel approaches, such as data envelopment analysis, stochastic frontier analysis, budget impact analysis, and value-focused methods. The presentation equips researchers with a versatile economic toolkit to understand the value of implementation.