Uma revisão de literatura
Zsolt Mogyorosy, Peter Smith
CHE Research Paper 7
Centre for Health Economics, Alcuin College, University of York, York, UK, 2005.
Disponível online (formato PDF 242p.) em: http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/che/pdf/rp7.pdf
"....This review examines published scientific literature about the methodologies used to estimate the costs associated with the delivery of a particular service at the micro-level in both in-patient and out-patient settings. In addition, the review summarises the scientific
literature on methodologies used in international comparative studies of health service costs at the micro-level, including in-patient and outpatient settings...."
"......A research protocol was developed which comprises a literature search strategy, inclusion and exclusion criteria, data extraction and synthesis methods. Studies were identified through electronic search of several databases, local library files and reference lists of published articles, as well as books. The literature search was extended to Internet websites of governments, academic institutions and large insurance companies' in order to include unpublished online information.
The literature review focuses on publications between 1986 and 2005, and only English language literature was included. Publications were critically appraised using preset quality criteria....."
Fonte: Informativo PAHO 02/05/2006
http://listserv.paho.org/scripts/wa.exe?A2=ind0605&L=equidad&T=0&F=&S=&P=56
