Research Article
Quality Appraisal of the Pharmacoeconomic Research Literature about Antivirals: A Comparison between Chinese Medicine and Non-Chinese Medicine
Table 2
Description of the included literature’s information.
| | Item | Number (%) |
| | Language | English | 154 (75.86) | | Chinese | 49 (24.14) |
| | Publication year | 2000–2004 | 10 (4.92) | | 2005–2009 | 32 (15.76) | | 2010–2014 | 74 (36.45) | | 2015–2020 | 87 (42.87) |
| | Type of drug | Nucleoside analog | 90 (44.33) | | Chinese medicine | 53 (26.11) | | Interferon | 38 (18.72) | | Others | 22 (10.84) |
| | Model analysis | Described | 11 (5.42) | | Not described | 192 (94.58) |
| | Analyzing method | CEA | 148 (72.91) | | CBA | 6 (2.96) | | CUA | 2 (0.99) | | BIA | 17 (8.37) | | Others | 30 (14.77) |
| | Design method | Retrospective study | 132 (65.02) | | Prospective study | 71 (34.98) |
| | Fund | Yes | 43 (21.18) | | No | 160 (78.82) |
| | Software used | SPSS | 95 (46.80) | | Stata | 9 (4.43) | | Others | 99 (48.77) |
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