Reference no: EM132395696

Critical Appraisal Assignment - Adapted Drummond Critical Appraisal Questions

1. What is the economic research question in this paper?

2. What was the intervention being compared with?

3. What is the clinical basis for effectiveness of the intervention in this paper?

4. From whose perspective was the economic analysis conducted?

5. What type of economic evaluation study was conducted and was a comprehensive range of costs and outcomes considered given the choice of type of study?

6. What range and in what units were costs and outcomes measured?

7. How were costs and outcomes valued?

8. Were costs and/or outcomes discounted?

9. Was an incremental or marginal analysis undertaken?

10. What sensitivity analysis was conducted?

11. Were results compared with findings of other studies?

12. What policy implications of the findings of this study were discussed and would the study provide useful information to health service commissioners?

Reference - Drummond, M.F., Sculpher, M.J., Claxton, K., Stoddart, G.L. and Torrance, G.W., 2015. Methods for the economic evaluation of health care programmes. Oxford university press.