Report in English with a French summary - KCE

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ECONOMIC AND COSTS STUDIES STRATEGY
� Centre for Reviews and Dissemination (HTA)
vertebroplast/Title & Abstract OR kyphoplast/Title & Abstract
HTA database: 18 Hits
NHS Economic Evaluation Database (NHS EED): 1 Hit
� Econlit (same strategy Any Field): 0 Hit
� Medline and PreMedline : 24 Hits
For the Medline search on OVID interface, the words vertebroplast$ or kyphoplast$
were searched in title, original title, abstract, name of substance word or subject
heading word.
Results were combined to the following economics or costs filters:
� the Mc Master University Hedges based on Haynes (medium sensitivity
and medium specificity for economics and costs)
(http://hiru.mcmaster.ca/hedges/),
� the INTERTASC Quality of life filter available from the University of
York website (http://www.york.ac.uk/inst/crd/intertasc/econ.htm),
� Embase: 94 Hits
For the search on Embase database, the same strategy was applied on Embase
references only. Unlike MeSH thesaurus, Emtree terms kyphoplasty and percutaneous
vertebroplasty could be used (as exploded Emtree terms and as text words) . The
following filters adapted to Embase were used:
� the economics filter from Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network
(http://www.sign.ac.uk/methodology/filters.html#econ),
� Emtree term: quality of life/
Grey literature was searched on February 24 through www.google.com (vertebroplast$
OR kyphoplast$ OR cyphoplastie$) in order to retrieve 4 reports as well as institution
and professional organization sites such as FDA Centre for devices and radiological
health register www.fda.gov , www.UNAMEC.be, www.worldspine.org and related sites
. Financial analyses available on charges were not bought.