Economic studies part I: basics and terms

• Recommended readings about economic evaluation:

• 1 Drummond MF, Sculpher MJ, Torrance GW et al. 2005. Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes. New York: Oxford University Press;
• 2 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: What is an economic evaluation? Introduction to economic evaluation. Available at www.cdc.gov/owcd/EET/SeriesIntroduction/1.html
• 3 Health Economics Information Resources: A self-study course. National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology (NICHSR). Available at www.nlm.nih.gov/nichsr/edu/healthecon/beginningend.pdf
• 4 Boos N. 2009; The impact of economic evaluation on quality management in spine surgery. Eur Spine J 18 (Suppl. 03) 338-347
• 5 Holtz A, Nelson HD, Reid E. 2012; Our questions, our decisions: standards for patient-centered outcomes research. Preliminary Draft Methodology Report, PCORI Methodology Committee Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute. Available at www.pcori.org/assets/Preliminary-Draft-Methodology-Report.pdf