School of Population and Global Health, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia.
School of Population and Global Health, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Australia.
Value Health. 2019 Mar;22(3):377-382. doi: 10.1016/j.jval.2018.10.006. Epub 2018 Dec 14.
It is useful for reviewers of economic evaluations to assess quality in a manner that is consistent and comprehensive. Checklists can allow this, but there are concerns about their reliability and how they are used in practice. We aimed to describe how checklists have been used in systematic reviews of health economic evaluations.
Meta-review with snowball sampling. We compiled a list of checklists for health economic evaluations and searched for the checklists' use in systematic reviews from January 2010 to February 2018. We extracted data regarding checklists used, stated checklist function, subject area, number of reviewers, and issues expressed about checklists.
We found 346 systematic reviews since 2010 that used checklists to assess economic evaluations. The most common checklist in use was developed in 1996 by Drummond and Jefferson, and the most common stated use of a checklist was quality assessment. Checklists and their use varied within subject areas; 223 reviews had more than one reviewer who used the checklist.
Use of checklists is inconsistent. Eighteen individual checklists have been used since 2010, many of which have been used in ways different from those originally intended, often without justification. Different systematic reviews in the same subject areas would benefit from using one checklist exclusively, using checklists as intended, and having 2 reviewers complete the checklist. This would increase the likelihood that results are transparent and comparable over time.
对于经济评估的评审者来说，以一致且全面的方式评估质量是很有用的。清单可以实现这一点，但人们对其可靠性以及在实践中如何使用存在担忧。我们旨在描述清单在卫生经济评估系统评价中的使用方式。
采用雪球抽样法进行元评价。我们编制了一份卫生经济评估清单，并从 2010 年 1 月至 2018 年 2 月搜索清单在系统评价中的使用情况。我们提取了有关使用的清单、清单的功能、主题领域、评审者人数以及对清单表达的问题的数据。
自 2010 年以来，我们发现了 346 项使用清单评估经济评估的系统评价。使用最多的清单是由 Drummond 和 Jefferson 于 1996 年制定的，最常见的清单用途是质量评估。清单及其使用在不同的主题领域有所不同；223 项审查有不止一位评审者使用清单。
清单的使用不一致。自 2010 年以来，已经使用了 18 种单独的清单，其中许多清单的使用方式与最初的用途不同，通常没有理由。同一主题领域的不同系统评价将受益于专门使用一个清单、按预期使用清单以及由两位评审者完成清单。这将增加结果在时间上透明且可比较的可能性。
