Assessing transferability in systematic reviews of health economic evaluations - a review of methodological guidance.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

For assessing cost-effectiveness, Health Technology Assessment (HTA) organisations may use primary economic evaluations (P-HEs) or Systematic Reviews of Health Economic evaluations (SR-HEs). A prerequisite for meaningful results of SR-HEs is that the results from existing P-HEs are transferable to the decision context (e.g, HTA jurisdiction). A particularly pertinent issue is the high variability of costs and resource needs across jurisdictions. Our objective was to review the methods documents of HTA organisations and compare their recommendations on considering transferability in SR-HE.

Methods

We systematically hand searched the webpages of 158 HTA organisations for relevant methods documents from 8th January to 31st March 2019. Two independent reviewers perform

SUBMITTER: Weise A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8858549 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature