Abstract
ABSTRACT Background This study tries to provide a comparative analysis of the systematic review of economic evaluation literature available about vaccines. Methods PubMed database were searched by using the following keywords: “vaccination/economics [MeSH]”. All articles were included if: 1) A literature or systematic review of vaccination studies; 2) primary or secondary data; 3) published in English; 4) related to human. Exclusion criteria were as followings: 1) editorial, review or methodological articles; 2) not in health sector; 3) not applied from 2009 to 2013. Results From 22 records found, eleven articles met selection criteria. Only 27.3 percent (3 of 11 studies) was recorded about the methodology of conducting systematic review studies based on the PRISMA, and AMSTAR guideline. Two of eleven studies (18.1 percent) in this review, the authors evaluated the quality of vaccination systematic review studies with different levels including “Moderate” to “Moderate to good” and “Moderate to good”. Discussion and conclusion According to this study, it helps to understand the current situation for conducting and reporting the economic evaluation of vaccination systematic review studies. Currently, the large number of studies and systematic reviews on the effects of vaccination, high quality evidence to inform policy decisions on how best to use vaccination in health care is still lacking.
Highlights
Evidence-based policy making can rarely rely on single studies, so policy makers and the researchers that support them try to make best use of the various partially relevant studies already available (Anderson, 2010)
Medical devices, services and interventions is a useful tool for assessing important decisions regarding the optimal utilization of scarce resources (Vo TQ, 2013)
Systematic reviews of economic studies have become a key feature of many policy making and technology assessment processes, and a common form of published study in certain health economics journals (Anderson, 2010)
Summary
Evidence-based policy making can rarely rely on single studies, so policy makers and the researchers that support them try to make best use of the various partially relevant studies already available (Anderson, 2010). Economic evaluation studies is very important to ameliorate decisions about apportion of human resources in health care. Medical devices, services and interventions is a useful tool for assessing important decisions regarding the optimal utilization of scarce resources (Vo TQ, 2013). Calls have been made for ‘rapid reviews’ to provide decision-makers with the evidence they need in a shorter time frame, but the possible limitations of such ‘rapid reviews’, compared to full systematic reviews, require further research (Ganann et al, 2010). This study tries to provide a comparative analysis of the systematic review of economic evaluation literature available about vaccines
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