Title |
A framework for assessing Health Economic Evaluation (HEE) quality appraisal instruments
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Published in |
BMC Health Services Research, August 2012
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DOI | 10.1186/1472-6963-12-253 |
Pubmed ID | |
Authors |
Astrid Langer |
Abstract |
Health economic evaluations support the health care decision-making process by providing information on costs and consequences of health interventions. The quality of such studies is assessed by health economic evaluation (HEE) quality appraisal instruments. At present, there is no instrument for measuring and improving the quality of such HEE quality appraisal instruments. Therefore, the objectives of this study are to establish a framework for assessing the quality of HEE quality appraisal instruments to support and improve their quality, and to apply this framework to those HEE quality appraisal instruments which have been subject to more scrutiny than others, in order to test the framework and to demonstrate the shortcomings of existing HEE quality appraisal instruments. |
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