TY - JOUR AU - McKinlay, R. James AU - Wilczynski, Nancy L. AU - Haynes, R. Brian AU - the Hedges Team PY - 2006 DA - 2006/12/01 TI - Optimal search strategies for detecting cost and economic studies in EMBASE JO - BMC Health Services Research SP - 67 VL - 6 IS - 1 AB - Economic evaluations in the medical literature compare competing diagnosis or treatment methods for their use of resources and their expected outcomes. The best evidence currently available from research regarding both cost and economic comparisons will continue to expand as this type of information becomes more important in today's clinical practice. Researchers and clinicians need quick, reliable ways to access this information. A key source of this type of information is large bibliographic databases such as EMBASE. The objective of this study was to develop search strategies that optimize the retrieval of health costs and economics studies from EMBASE. SN - 1472-6963 UR - https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6963-6-67 DO - 10.1186/1472-6963-6-67 ID - McKinlay2006 ER -