An overview of systematic reviews of economic evaluations of pharmacy-based public health interventions: addressing methodological challenges.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Pharmacy interventions are a subset of public health interventions and its research is usually performed within the scope of a trial. The economic evaluation of pharmacy interventions requires certain considerations which have some similarities to those of public health interventions and to economic evaluations alongside trials. The objective of this research is to perform an overview of systematic reviews of economic evaluations of pharmacy services and triangulate results with recommendations for economic evaluations of both public health interventions and alongside trials.

Methods

(1) Exploratory review of recommendations on the economic evaluation of public health interventions, (2) exploratory review of recommendations for conducting economic evaluations alon

SUBMITTER: Costa S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6844055 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature