Eljilany Islam, El-Dahiyat Faris, Curley Louise Elizabeth, Babar Zaheer-Ud-Din
a Independent Researcher , Pharmacoeconomics Expert , Qatar.
b College of Pharmacy , Al Ain University of Science and Technology , Al Ain , United Arab Emirates.
Expert Rev Pharmacoecon Outcomes Res. 2018 Aug;18(4):403-414. doi: 10.1080/14737167.2018.1479254. Epub 2018 May 30.
The importance of pharmacoeconomics and health economics has been augmented. It has the potential to provide evidence to aid in optimal decision-making in the funding of cost-effective medicines and services in Gulf Cooperation Council countries (G.C.C).
To evaluate the quality and quantity of health economic researches published until the end of 2017 in G.C.C. and to identify the factors that affect the quality of studies.
Studies were included according to predefined inclusion and exclusion criteria. The quantity was recorded, and the quality was assessed using the Quality of Health Economic Studies (QHES) instrument.
Forty-nine studies were included. The mean (SD) quality score of all studies was 57.83 (25.05), and a high number of reviewed studies (47%) were evaluated as either poor or extremely poor quality. The factors that affect the quality of studies with statistical significance were, the type and method of economic evaluation, the economic outcome was the objective of the research, author`s background, the perspective of the study, health intervention and source of funding.
The use of economic evaluation studies in G.C.C was limited. Different factors that affect the quality of articles such as performing a full economic evaluation and choosing societal perspective were identified. Strategies to improve the quality of future studies were recommended.
药物经济学和卫生经济学的重要性已得到增强。它有可能为海湾合作委员会国家（G.C.C）具有成本效益的药品和服务的资金分配提供最佳决策依据。
评估截至2017年底在G.C.C发表的卫生经济研究的质量和数量，并确定影响研究质量的因素。
根据预先定义的纳入和排除标准纳入研究。记录数量，并使用卫生经济研究质量（QHES）工具评估质量。
纳入了49项研究。所有研究的平均（标准差）质量得分为57.83（25.05），且大量被审查的研究（47%）被评估为质量差或极差。具有统计学意义的影响研究质量的因素包括经济评价的类型和方法、经济结果是研究目的、作者背景、研究视角、卫生干预措施和资金来源。
G.C.C对经济评价研究的使用有限。确定了影响文章质量的不同因素，如进行全面的经济评价和选择社会视角。建议了提高未来研究质量的策略。
