While scientific research and the methodologies involved have gone through substantial technological evolution the technology involved in the publication of the results of these endeavors has remained relatively stagnant. Publication is largely done in the same manner today as it was fifty years...

The number of economic evaluations is constantly increasing. The need to establish a framework with which to assess the validity of the studies has led to the development of checklists and scoring systems to compare the quality of different studies and ensure that decisions made by decision...