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Health Economics Information Resources: A Self-Study Course Module 3: Identification and Retrieval of Published Health Economic Evaluation Studies Mislabeling of economic studiesSome economic studies which claim to be full economic evaluations may in fact only be partial evaluations. A study by Zarnke et al* found that, of a set of economic studies labeled as cost-benefit analyses:
Consequences of mislabelingImportant consequences may occur as a result of mislabeling. Mislabeling of partial evaluations as full economic evaluations has the potential to misinform the health care decision-making process. It can also result in the incorrect application of indexing terms to studies that are indexed for bibliographic databases (through no fault of the indexer!) - thus making it more challenging in identifying studies which are true economic evaluations.
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Last Reviewed: July 12, 2016