International journal of technology assessment in health care
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Int J Technol Assess Health Care · Jan 1999
ReviewEconomic evaluation of diagnostic tests. A review of published studies.
The purpose of this review was to examine whether studies from the medical literature focusing on efficiency of diagnostic facilities reported economic evaluation methods appropriately, following guidelines for conducting and reporting economic evaluations. ⋯ Our review suggests that to improve the quality of reporting economic evaluations, editorial boards could issue and enforce guidelines for standard reporting of such studies.