Searching for Evidence for Cost-Effectiveness Decisions

Evidence-Based Decisions and Economics: Health Care, Social Welfare, Education and Criminal Justice, Second Edition

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 79-92

  Glanville, Julie ^a   Paisley, Suzy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Approaches to searching for economic evaluations; Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions describing eligibility criteria; Defining scope of relevant evidence; Economic evaluations reviews; Identifying evidence to inform development of decision models; Implications for approach to searching; Published and unpublished economic studies identifying and assessing; Searching for evidence for cost effectiveness decisions

Indexed keywords

EID: 78649976620     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444320398.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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