Do economic evaluation studies inform effective healthcare resource allocation in Iran? A critical review of the literature.

ABSTRACT: To aid informed health sector decision-making, data from sufficient high quality economic evaluations must be available to policy makers. To date, no known study has analysed the quantity and quality of available Iranian economic evaluation studies. This study aimed to assess the quantity, quality and targeting of economic evaluation studies conducted in the Iranian context. The study systematically reviewed full economic evaluation studies (n = 30) published between 1999 and 2012 in international and local journals. The findings of the review indicate that although the literature on economic evaluation in Iran is growing, these evaluations were of poor quality and suffer from several major methodological flaws. Furthermore, the review reveals that economic evaluation studies have not addr

SUBMITTER: Haghparast-Bidgoli H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4105166 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature