How to prepare a systematic review of economic evaluations for clinical practice guidelines: database selection and search strategy development (part 2/3).
This article is part of the series "How to prepare a systematic review of economic evaluations (EES) for informing evidence-based healthcare decisions", in which a five-step approach is proposed. Areas covered: This paper focuses on the selection of relevant databases and developing a search strategy for detecting EEs, as well as on how to perform the search and how to extract relevant data from retrieved records. Expert commentary: Thus far, little has been published on how to conduct systematic review EEs. Moreover, reliable sources of information, such as the Health Economic Evaluation Database, have ceased to publish updates. Researchers are thus left without authoritative guidance on how to conduct SR-EEs. Together with van Mastrigt et al. we seek to fill this gap.
a Institute for Health Policy and Management , Erasmus University Rotterdam , Rotterdam , The Netherlands.
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b CAPHRI, School for Public Health and Primary Care, Department of Health Services Research, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences , Maastricht University , Maastricht , The Netherlands.
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a Institute for Health Policy and Management , Erasmus University Rotterdam , Rotterdam , The Netherlands.
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c Medical Library , Erasmus MC - University Medical Centre , Rotterdam , The Netherlands.
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d Department of Research and Development , Epilepsy Centre Kempenhaeghe , Heeze , The Netherlands.|e Department of Neurology, Academic Centre for Epileptology , Epilepsy Centre Kempenhaeghe and Maastricht University Medical Centre , Heeze and Maastricht , The Netherlands.|f School of Mental Health and Neuroscience , Maastricht University Medical Centre , Maastricht , The Netherlands.|g School of Health Professions Education, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences , Maastricht University , Maastricht , The Netherlands.
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b CAPHRI, School for Public Health and Primary Care, Department of Health Services Research, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences , Maastricht University , Maastricht , The Netherlands.|d Department of Research and Development , Epilepsy Centre Kempenhaeghe , Heeze , The Netherlands.|h Public Mental Health, Trimbos Institute , Netherlands Institute of Mental Health and Addiction , Utrecht , The Netherlands.
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i CAPHRI, School for Public Health and Primary Care, Department of Family Medicine, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences , Maastricht University , Maastricht , The Netherlands.
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D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D016208:Databases, Factual; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods; D019317:Evidence-Based Medicine / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods; D006801:Humans; D017410:Practice Guidelines as Topic; D012196:Review Literature as Topic
Methods; clinical practice guidelines; databases; economic evaluation; guidance; information retrieval; search engine; search strategy; systematic literature review