Evaluation of economic evaluation studies in healthcareThis study was analysed and separated into two parts including general information section and quality of health economic evaluation section. In the former section , the economic evaluation literature and a review of the technical characteristics of the article including the following information: number of authors, training of primary author, country of residence of primary author, publication year , journal publishing said study, the journal’s origin (country where the journal is published). Furthermore, this study also explored types of costs including economic evaluation used in publications, the primary outcomes, study design, perspective considering if the foremost goal of any study was economic evaluation, and funding source. Regarding the latter section, there are two possible ways to assign the quality of health economic evaluation. The first method stated that qualities of reporting have adhered to particular methodological and reporting practices recommended by Drummond et al. (12, 13) with six aspects including (1) clearly the study perspective, (2) description of comparator(s), (3) use of discounting methods in case of the costs and/or outcomes originating from a study with its timespan being over 1 year, (4) report about the incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER), (5) performance of uncertainty analysis, (6) disclose of funding sources. Secondly, the parameters of quality of studies were measured by data source in economic analyses.
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