Dictionary
The Dictionary provides concise definitions of health economics terms, arranged alphabetically for quick reference. Use it to understand unfamiliar terminology or confirm the meaning of a specific term.
Q
- Quality AssessmentStudy Quality Appraisal, Methodological Quality Review
- The general process of systematically evaluating a study's methodological rigour and trustworthiness, covering design, risk of bias, and reporting completeness.
- Quality Assessment ModelQuality Appraisal Framework, Study-Quality Tool
- A structured tool or checklist systematically evaluating research methodological quality against predefined criteria, such as the Cochrane risk of bias tool.
- Quality of EvidenceEvidence Quality, Evidence Certainty Level
- A judgement about how much confidence can be placed in an effect estimate, based on study design, risk of bias, and precision.
R
- Risk of BiasRoB, Bias Susceptibility
- The degree to which a study's design, conduct, or analysis may have introduced systematic errors distorting its findings from the truth.
- Risk of Bias AssessmentBias Risk Appraisal, Bias Domain Assessment
- A structured evaluation of a study's methodological quality, examining domains such as randomisation and blinding, to judge how much confidence its results deserve.