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Best Practices for Conducting Economic Evaluations in Health Care: A Systematic Review of Quality Assessment Tools

Walker, D. G., Wilson, R. F., Sharma, R., Bridges, J., Niessen, L., Bass, E. B., Frick, K. (2012). Best Practices for Conducting Economic Evaluations in Health Care: A Systematic Review of Quality Assessment Tools. Methods Research Report. Prepared by Johns Hopkins University Evidence-based Practice Center. Rockville, MD: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. Retrieved from Organization website: www.effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/reports/final.cfm
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Description

This review identifies the strengths and weaknesses of quality assessment checklists to critically appraise economic evaluations in health care.

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The main findings of this systematic review include:

  • Only some of the checklists have been tested for validity and reliability.
  • Most checklists assessed some of the identified important criteria, such as description of the target population, choice of alternatives, study questions, study design, measurement, valuation, outcome identification and outcome measurement.
  • Different checklists are appropriate for assessing the quality of different types of economic evaluations.
  • The Consensus on Health Economic Criteria and the Drummond checklists are appropriate tools to appraise economic evaluations conducted alongside effectiveness studies and as part of conducting systematic reviews.

These summaries are written by the NCCMT to condense and to provide an overview of the resources listed in the Registry of Methods and Tools and to give suggestions for their use in a public health context. For more information on individual methods and tools included in the review, please consult the authors/developers of the original resources.

We have provided the resources and links as a convenience and for informational purposes only; they do not constitute an endorsement or an approval by McMaster University of any of the products, services or opinions of the external organizations, nor have the external organizations endorsed their resources and links as provided by McMaster University. McMaster University bears no responsibility for the accuracy, legality or content of the external sites.

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