BACKGROUND: As the health care economic-evaluation literature continues to grow, a need for sound methods to conduct systematic reviews of the existing evidence is emerging. So far, reviews of economic evaluations have relied upon noncomprehensive sources and have adopted simplistic search...

Background Provision of evidence on costs alongside evidence on the effects of interventions can enhance the relevance of systematic reviews to decision-making. However, patterns of use of economics methods alongside systematic review remain unclear. Reviews of evidence on the effects of...

Neue Formen der Vergütung in der Psychiatrie, die an die einzelne Maßnahme gekoppelt sind, werden zweifellos eine größere Rolle in den psychiatrischen Versorgungssystemen in ganz Europa spielen. Diese könnten möglicherweise effizienter sein und die Wahlmöglichkeiten verbessern, jedoch...