Review literature
Appraisal of: Pitt C, Goodman C, Hanson K. Economic evaluation in global perspective: a bibliometric analysis of the recent literature. Health Econ. 2016 Feb;25 Suppl 1:9-28.
A bibliometric analysis of full economic evaluations of health interventions was conducted. A search of 14 databases identified 2844 economic evaluations published between 1 January 2012 and 3 May 2014. Analyses included: the sensitivity and specificity of searches in all databases, the distribution of the publications between countries, regions and health areas studied, as well as authors' country and institutional affiliations, journal type, language, and type of economic evaluation. The Scopus search identified the largest number of economic evaluations (85%), followed by NHS EED (80%), and MEDLINE (79%). EconLit captured only 1% of the publications identified. The majority of economic evaluations were published in biomedical journals (74%), addressed high-income countries (83%), and had at least one author based in a high-income country (91%). The health areas studied correlated more closely with the burden of diseases in high income countries compared to low-and middle-income countries.
