[Health economic evaluation reporting guideline and application status]

Zhonghua Yu Fang Yi Xue Za Zhi. 2017 Mar 6;51(3):276-280. doi: 10.3760/cma.j.issn.0253-9624.2017.03.016.
[Article in Chinese]

Abstract

Using the guidelines of health economic evaluation reporting is conducive to regulating the contents of this reporting, improving the quality of studies into health economics evaluation. This article summarized the history of the guidelines and specified the instrument used to study " Quality of Health Economic Studies (QHES)" and the checklist about Consolidated Health Economics Evaluation Reporting Standards (CHEERS)-the two specific evaluation contents in this guideline, the article also introduced its present application status of the guideline and its pros and cons. The checklist of CHEERS emphasized the evaluation of this report, while QHES instrument focused on quantitative evaluation on the quality of economic studies. Despite different emphasis, the two guides are actually mutually complemented.

运用卫生经济学评价报告指南,可规范卫生经济评价的报告内容,提升卫生经济评价研究的质量。本文简要概述了卫生经济学评价报告指南的发展历史,并详细介绍了卫生经济研究质量评价(QHES )工具和卫生经济学评价报告标准共识(CHEERS)清单两类指南的具体评价内容、应用现况和存在的优缺点。CHEERS清单只针对研究报告本身进行评价,而QHES工具对经济学研究的质量进行定量评价。两类指南虽侧重点不同,但在实际应用中可互为补充。.

Keywords: Economics, medical; Guidebooks; Quality assurance, health care.

MeSH terms

  • Checklist*
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis
  • Economics, Medical*
  • Guidelines as Topic*
  • Humans
  • Reference Standards