Ordering Cost-Effectiveness Management Studies in Healthcare: A PRISMA-Compliant Systematic Literature Review and Bibliometric Analysis

Abstract

The issue of effectiveness in healthcare plays a role in international debates. The search for adequate tools allowing management to evaluate the correct allocation of resources becomes increasingly necessary. Cost-effectiveness analysis responds to this need, but the variety of tools and solutions proposed makes their application and replicability complex. The aim of this study was to create a starting approach model useful to researchers and professionals to cost-effectiveness problem solving. The study integrates two approaches by unifying the PRISMA-Compliant Systematic Literature Review and Bibliometric Analysis. The results obtained from the analysis are manifold. Scientific production related to cost-effectiveness in healthcare has increased in the last ten years and is mainly concentrated in three sources. Researchers insert multiple keywords into the articles, but the main ones are cost effectiveness analysis, human, health care cost. The topics covered can be divided into two clusters, which can be further divided into several subgroups. PRISMA analysis reinforces and confirms what has been identified through bibliometric analysis: in cost-effectiveness analysis different methodological bases are applicable to specific individual topics; in particular, the most used approaches to evaluate cost-effectiveness are DES (discrete event simulation) and Mathematical-statistical analysis methodologies, whose applications need the highlighted data. The study also underlines the literature absence of some specific topics such as spillover from primary and secondary health prevention activities, organization of services, rehabilitation activities, centralization of services related to contracts and PPPs, evaluation of infra-hospital care pathways.

The role of women in the field of early intervention

“…The authors adhered to a process of excluding any articles that were deemed irrelevant to the topic reviewed (eligibility). To ensure methodological rigor and transparency throughout the review process [ 36 , 37 ], they employed the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) framework. To ensure a correct evaluation of the quality of the collected studies, we chose to evaluate the topic of early intervention, and also focused on those studies that referred to the role of women in this field.…”

Estimation of the cost in a paediatric radiology service using time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC)

“…(3) to compare the reimbursement rates (Campra, Orlandini, Amelio, & Brescia, 2021;Demeere, Stouthuysen, & Roodhooft, 2009;Keel, Savage, Rafiq, & Mazzocato, 2017) of the Ministry of Health with the costs incurred by the hospital.…”

A Bibliometric Study on the Social Validity of Telepractice in Autism Spectrum Disorder

“…The authors adopted the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) framework [42][43][44] to review and select articles for literature search.…”

“…This procedure was followed to discard those articles that did not refer to the topic under study (eligibility). The authors adopted the PRISMA (Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses) framework [42][43][44] to review and select articles for literature search.…”