I am intersted in methods and tools which are explain economic evalution process of laboratory equipment
Nurbol, the analysis will need to take account of all the costs of the equipment over its working life (purchase, running costs, maintenance and spare parts, reagents and disposables - baseline and per-analysis) as well as the staff and infrastructure costs involved in running the equipment. Cheap equipment which requires a higher labour input may not save money in the long run.
Some equipment suppliers use the 'inkjet printer' charging model - the equipment itself is supplied at a very low cost, but the price of essential supplies is very high, and increases over time.
Activity based costing (http://www.pearsoned.ca/highered/divisions/virtual_tours/horngren/man_acc/Ch05ManAcc.pdf) is one approach to assessing costs.
Dear Nurbol, In addition to previous authors suggestions, I would suggest that you set up a quasi-experiment study which has an intervention site and a control site. This will help you determine which local optimal conditions does your tools work. Regions, countries are different in a number of issues (these could be potential confounders) in explaining the outcome of your study.
Here is publication from KEMRI to help sharpen your thought processes.......
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