Twenty years of cost-effectiveness analysis in medical imaging: are we improving?

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

To determine the growth rate, methodologic clarity, and quality changes in cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs) and to assess whether the U.S. Panel on Cost-effectiveness in Health and Medicine recommendations affected CEA studies in which imaging technologies were evaluated.

Materials and methods

Six databases were systematically searched for CEA reports published between 1985 and 2005. All imaging-related studies were selected and grouped according to year, country, and journal of publication, as well as imaging modality and disease being studied. Two readers with formal training in decision analysis and CEA used a seven-point (1, low; 7, high) Likert scale based on reasonableness of assumptions, quality of presentation, and adherence to guidelines to independently e

SUBMITTER: Otero HJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2691813 | biostudies-literature | 2008 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature