Measuring impacts: a scoping review of healthcare impact evaluations.

ABSTRACT:

Background

With the increasing use of the term "impact evaluation" in healthcare and the absence of an exhaustive review on this general theme, this research aims to map available evidence and methods associated with impact evaluations in healthcare by conducting a scoping review.

Methods

This exhaustive review included peer-reviewed studies of healthcare interventions with no restrictions on language or time of publication.

Results

In total, 324 studies met the inclusion criteria from 4372 single registries retrieved from Medline, Embase, Scopus, WoS and Econlit in August 2024, with no time restriction. Only ex-post studies were identified; as expected from guidelines, most studies used counterfactuals (58%) and only 7% did not use any comparison. Furthermore, natura

SUBMITTER: Correia LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12424203 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature