Health Economics Information Resources: A Self-Study Course

Module 1, Part 2: Key Information Sources

Databases - Value-added information

The NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED)

• produced by
  • NHS Centre for Reviews & Dissemination, University of York, UK
• available via:
  • NHSCRD Web site - (updated monthly)
  • The Cochrane Library (updated quarterly)
• features:
  • full critical appraisal of economic evaluation studies by health economists
  • detailed structured abstract
  • other types of health economic analysis with bibliographic details
  • MeSH indexing*

*see also Module 3: MeSH

The Health Economic Evaluations Database (HEED)

• acquired by
  • John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. on November 1, 2006 from the Office of Health Economics, UK & International Federation of Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Associations (OHE-IFPMA).
• available through Wiley InterScience
• features:
  • reviewed by health economists
  • structured format providing:
    • bibliographic details
    • study definitions
    • analysis and results
    • keywords
• not included:
  • full critical appraisal
  • controlled vocabulary indexing

The CEA Registry (formerly known as the Harvard CUA Database)

• produced by
  • Harvard Center for Risk Analysis
• available at this site
• features:
  • reference list of studies that have used costs per quality-adjusted life year (QALY) to measure health benefits 1976 - 1997
  • Comprehensive League table of Cost-QALY Ratios
  • League table of cost-QALY ratios which adhere to the Washington Panel*
  • Catalog of Preference Scores used for QALYs
  • checklist used to appraise CUA studies

* see also Module 3: Economic Evaluation Guidelines

Value-added information sources - secondary journals

• Evidence-based Healthcare
  • reviewed articles from 70+ journals from the field of the financing, organization and management of health care
  • provides structured abstracts
  • gives expert commentary
  • ceased publication in 2007

• ACP Journal Club
  • ACP Journal Club contains reviews of articles from clinical and other health care journals including studies of the economics of health care programs or interventions
  • provides structured abstracts, and
  • includes expert commentary

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