Economic evaluations of alcohol pharmacotherapy: Systematic review of economic evaluations of pharmacotherapy for the treatment of alcohol use disorder.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Alcohol use disorders confer a significant burden of disease and economic cost worldwide. However, the utilisation of pharmacotherapies to manage alcohol use disorder is poor. We aimed to conduct a systematic review of economic evaluation studies of alcohol use disorder pharmacotherapies.

Methods

A search was conducted in Embase, Medline, CINAHL, PsychINFO and EconLit (August 2019, updated September 2022). Full economic evaluations using pharmacotherapy to treat alcohol use disorders were included. Included studies were stratified by medication and summarised descriptively. The Consensus on Health Economic Criteria list was used to assess the methodological quality.

Results

A total of 1139 studies were retrieved, of which 15 met the inclusion criteria. All s

SUBMITTER: Higginbotham B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10838482 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature