title: Quality of reporting in economic evaluations of interventions to prevent dental caries needs improvement.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Systematic review of publications on economic evaluations of caries prevention programs. Marino RJ, Khan AR, Morgan M. Caries Res 2013;47(4):265-72.
  
  
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  Susan O. Griffin, PhD, Kari Jones, PhD PURPOSE/QUESTION: The purpose of this study was to review the literature on economic evaluations of interventions for the prevention of dental caries with the intention of describing the characteristics (e.g., intervention evaluated, type of economic evaluation, and year of publication) of these studies and to assess their quality. The quality of economic evaluation was assessed using a checklist developed by Drummond et al.(1) This review did not present economic findings for individual studies or synthesize findings across studies.
  
  
  BACKGROUND
  Grant from Borrow Foundation (UK). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
  
  
  METHODS
  Systematic review of study characteristics and quality
  
  
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authors.affiliation: Division of Oral Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 4770 Buford Highway MF F80, Chamblee, GA 30341, USA. Fax: +1 770 488 6080. Electronic address: sig1@cdc.gov.
authors.forename: Susan O
authors.initials: SO
authors.lastname: Griffin
authors.forename: Kari
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Jones
mesh_terms: D003731:Dental Caries / Q000191:economics* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D006801:Humans; D011313:Preventive Dentistry / Q000191:economics*