title: A methodological framework of preparing economic evidence for selection of medicines in the Chinese setting.
abstract: Medicines are becoming a major component of health expenditure in China. Selection of effective and cost-effective medicines represents an important effort to improve medicines use. A guideline on cost-effectiveness studies has been available in China. This guideline, however, fails to be a practical tool to prepare and critically appraise economic evidence. This article discusses, in the Chinese context, the approach to integrating economic component into the medicines selection, and elaborates the methods of producing economic evidence, including conducing economic reviews and primary economic studies.
authors.affiliation: Chinese Evidence-Based Medicine Center, West China Hospital, Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. sunyzmy@hotmail.com
authors.forename: Xin
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Sun
authors.forename: Thomas Alured
authors.initials: TA
authors.lastname: Faunce
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D018954:Drugs, Essential / Q000191:economics* / Q000627:therapeutic use; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine; D017408:Guidelines as Topic; D006801:Humans
chemical_list: D018954:Drugs, Essential