Objectives:To provide an introduction to the techniques needed to develop a protocol for a Cochrane Intervention Review that will include health economics perspectives and evidence.

Description: Incorporating health economics evidence into Cochrane Reviews can facilitate decision making that takes account of costs and provides the international context within which previously published evidence can be interpreted and assessed as a preliminary to economic evaluation.This is the first of a pair of workshops and participants are strongly encouraged to attend the second workshop of this pair also.

Part one will enable participants to:

- incorporate economics perspectives into the background section;
- formulate an objective for the economics component;
- identify measures of resource use, costs and cost-effectiveness to be included as outcome measures; and
- identify studies likely to contain evidence on resource use, costs and cost-effectiveness.

This workshop is consistent with guidance on the use of economics methods in the preparation and maintenance of Cochrane Reviews, published in the Cochrane Handbook for Systematic Reviews of Interventions. It will comprise a didactic presentation, a practical small-group exercise and opportunities for questions and discussion.