Economic evaluations in undergraduate medical education: a systematic review.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Medical education profoundly impacts patients, students, educators and public resources. However, the economic dimensions necessary for informed decision-making remain underexplored. This systematic review examines how economic evaluations are conducted and reported in undergraduate medical education (UME) literature and assesses their quality.

Design

Systematic review.

Data sources

Medline, Embase, Web of Science, Cochrane, ERIC, Google Scholar and the CEVR CEA databases were searched on 13 September 2024.

Eligibility criteria

Eligible studies evaluated interventions within UME and reported (incremental) costs and effects, employing any method such as cost-effectiveness analysis, cost-minimisation analysis or decision-analytic modelling.

Data ext

SUBMITTER: Dijk SW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11907045 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature