The following databases were searched from January 2005 to February 2010 for relevant economic evaluations concerning the use of PET imaging in oncology: Cochrane Library, DARE, EMBASE, HTA Database, NHS EED, PubMed, RePEc, and Web of Science.
Three of these economic evaluations concerned prevention programs for parents [ 30- 32].
There is a need for further research and evaluation concerning the efficacy, effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the programs [ 30] and investigation of the potential barriers faced by transition to practice programs.
The degree of complexity of the various evaluations reflected the complexity of the health RCS initiative; for example, the design of an evaluation concerning individuals in scholarship programs [ 23, 24] was simpler than that used to evaluate changes in health economics capacity across an entire region [ 37].
Arguably this task is somewhat related to our task as far as the use of ICD codes for evaluation is concerned.
The evaluation concerned all deliberate self poisoning patients admitted for few days in a toxicology unit.
This process evaluation concerned a study on the effect of job-specific WHS for Dutch bricklayers and construction supervisors.
Our evaluation concerns two main areas.
When, for example, the question of evaluation concerns guidelines or patients' needs, the enquiry will not begin with "Can it work?", but with "What are the different types of evidence (scientific, contextual and colloquial) required to answer the question of evaluation?" The questions of efficacy, effectiveness, appropriateness and implementation will be subordinated to the latter.
In this view, only 2 papers (out of more than 25 evidence found, using the keywords "surgical disposable kit" and/or "HTA" and/or "spinal surgery") met the research criteria, since the others were considered not focused on the efficacy or safety information, on the comparative analysis, out-of-scope for the evaluation or concerning other clinical specialties and not spinal surgery.
