Carande-Kulis V, Briss P, Teutsch S, Alaov M, Hopkins D, Zaza S, Fielding J; International Society of Technology Assessment in Health Care. Meeting.

Annu Meet Int Soc Technol Assess Health Care Int Soc Technol Assess Health Care Meet. 2000; 16: 085.

Division of Prevention Research and Analytic Methods, EPO, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Atlanta, Georgia USA

Introduction: The Task Force on Community Preventive Services (the Task Force) is a independent nonfederal group, working under the auspices of the U.S. Public Health Service. The Task Force is reviewing published evidence regarding effectiveness, applicability, economic efficiency, and implementation barriers of community-based interventions. The reviews support evidence-based recommendations made in the Guide to Community Preventive Services.The evidence regarding economic efficiency is obtained by conducting systematic reviews of economic evaluations that use cost, cost-effectiveness, cost-utility or cost-benefit analysis. The reviews include an assessment of study quality. Objectives: This paper discusses the approach to assessing the quality of economic evaluations included in the Guide. Methods: Results from studies selected according to explicit inclusion criteria are abstracted and adjusted according to Guide standards. The quality of the study is then assessed for four different areas -- design, costs, effects, and analysis. Studies are classified as unsatisfactory, satisfactory, good or excellent quality. Results: The quality criteria was pilot-tested in a review of interventions to promote tobacco product use cessation in adults and to reduce tobacco product use initiation in adolescents. Substantial variability in quality was observed among studies. Conclusions: The approach to assessing study quality of interventions included in the Guide addresses the appropriateness of methods and validity of results from economic evaluations. It was not designed to stand alone but rather to complement the inclusion, abstraction, and adjustment processes used in the Guide. The criteria was useful in obtaining quality information that will assist the reader in evaluating the strength of the economic results presented in the Guide.

Publication Types:

• Meeting Abstracts

Keywords:

• Abstracting and Indexing as Topic
• Adolescent
• Adult
• Advisory Committees
• Cost-Benefit Analysis
• Humans
• Research Design
• Social Welfare
• United States
• economics
• methods
• hsrmtgs

Other ID:

• GWHSR0000053

UI: 102271727

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