Objectives:
This workshop is the first in a series of two sequential workshops aiming to provide authors of Cochrane reviews with the knowledge and skills to develop a protocol for a Cochrane review that will incorporate coverage of economics aspects of the interventions studied. At the conclusion of this workshop, participants will be able to:
1. Conceptualise the relevance of economics issues to background and study questions;
2. Formulate an economics question;
3. Identify measures of resource use, costs and cost-effectiveness to be included as outcome measures; and
4. Identify types of studies likely to contain relevant economic data.
Description:
Including coverage of economics aspects of interventions may enhance the usefulness and applicability of Cochrane reviews as a component of the basis for health care decision-making and can provide the international context within which economic evidence can be interpreted and assessed as a preliminary to economic evaluation.
The facilitators of this workshop will share techniques for formulating protocols for Cochrane reviews aiming to include coverage of economics aspects of interventions. The workshop is based on new economics methods guidance published in the new edition of the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions. Topics will include formulating the background, objectives and criteria for considering studies sections of protocols.
The session will include brief presentations, interactive small group exercises and discussion.