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Table 1 Top title and abstract terms in each major division

From: Research trends in contemporary health economics: a scientometric analysis on collective content of specialty journals

Division

No. of items

Top terms

Youngest terms

Most cited terms

1. Macro-economic evaluation (dark blue)

1412

Policy

Percentage point

Endogeneity

Health care

Causal effect

Poor health

Demand

Pandemic

Income group

Income

Spillover/ spillover effect

Economic growth

Market

Medicaid expansion

Economic analysis

Self

Affordable care act (ACA)

National longitudinal survey

Incentive

Exogenous valuation

Behavioural risk factor surveillance

Provider

Universal health coverage

Binge drinking

Utilization

Public health insurance

Job loss

Behaviour

Channel

Social network

2. Micro-economic evaluation (green)

879

Cost-effectiveness

Year time horizon/ lifetime horizon

Long term survival

Life year

Deterministic

Discontinuation

QALY/ QALYs

Hazard ratio

Probabilistic analysis

Incremental cost

Scenario analysis

Randomised clinical trial

Trial

State transition model

Cost-effectiveness acceptability curve

Sensitivity analysis

Hepatitis C Virus/ HCV

Ulcer

Markov model

Model input

Mixed treatment comparison

ICER

Patients

Natural history

Utility analysis

T2DM

Individual patient data

Time horizon

Credible interval

Additional QALY

3. Measurement and valuation of outcomes (light blue)

594

Preference

Discrete choice experiment/ DCE/ DCEs

Standard gamble

Health state

Value set

EQ-5D

Validity

Dimensional questionnaire

SF-6D

Respondent

Level EuroQol/ EQ-5D-3L

Descriptive system

Valuation

Generic preference

Experimental design

Questionnaire

Predictive accuracy

Functioning

Instrument

Data quality

Content validity

Discrete choice experiment

Map/ mapping

Approximation

Dimension

Health state utility value

Health state utility

Item

Severity level

Index value

4. Monitoring mechanisms (evaluation) (light grey)

391

Systematic review

Systematic review

Outcomes research

Appraisal

Health technology assessment/ HTA

Reporting

Health technology assessment

Econlit

Checklist

Guidance

Stakeholder

Statement

Economic model

Pubmed/ Embase

Good practice

Transparency

HTA agency

Meeting

Stakeholder

Website

Pharmacoeconomics

Description

Hungary

International society/ ISPOR

Vaccination

Data extraction

Statistical approach

Medline/ Embase

Cochrane library

Developer

5. Guidance and appraisal (dark grey)

240

Pound

Care excellence

Critique

National Institute/ NICE

Overall survival

Clinical evidence

Manufacturer

Network meta-analysis

Indirect treatment comparison

Company

Progression free survival

Dissemination

Centre

ERG

Network meta-analysis

Submission

NICE single technology appraisal

Critical review

Care excellence

Patient access scheme

Submission

Overall survival

Independent evidence review group

 

NHS

Cost effectiveness evidence

 

Comparator

Appraisal committee

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