Abstract
Introduction: Systematic reviews of economic evaluations are useful for synthesizing economic evidence about health interventions and for informing evidence-based decisions.Areas covered: As there is no detailed description of the methods for performing a systematic review of economic evidence, this paper aims to provide an overview of state-of-the-art methodology. This is laid out in a 5-step approach, as follows: step 1) initiating a systematic review; step 2) identifying (full) economic evaluations; step 3) data extraction, risk of bias and transferability assessment; step 4) reporting results; step 5) discussion and interpretation of findings.Expert commentary: The paper aims to help inexperienced reviewers and clinical practice guideline developers, but also to be a resource for experts in the field who want to check on current methodological developments.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 689-704 |
Journal | Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research |
Volume | 16 |
Issue number | 6 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Dec 2016 |
Keywords
- Methods
- systematic reviews
- economic evaluations
- clinical practice guidelines
- guidance
- quality appraisal
- risk of bias
- search strategies
- databases
- data extraction
- reporting and discussion