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Hoque et al. Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation 2011, 9:12 /content/9/1/12 REVIEW Open Access A systematic review of economic evaluations of health and health-related interventions in Bangladesh 1* 1 1 1 2 Mohammad E Hoque , Jahangir AM Khan , Shahed SA Hossain , Rukhsana Gazi , Harun-ar Rashid , Tracey P Koehlmoos 1 and Damian G Walker3 Abstract Background: Economic evaluation is used for effective resource allocation in health sector. Accumulated knowledge about economic evaluation of health programs in Bangladesh is not currently available. While a number of economic evaluation studies have been performed in Bangladesh, no systematic investigation of the studies has been done to our knowledge. The aim of this current study is to systematically review the published articles in peer-reviewed journals on economic evaluation of health and health-related interventions in Bangladesh. Methods: Literature searches was carried out during November-December 2008 with a combination of key words, MeSH terms and other free text terms as suitable for the purpose. A comprehensive search strategy was developed to search Medline by the PubMed interface. The first specific interest was mapping the articles considering the areas of exploration by economic evaluation and the second interest was to scrutiny the methodological quality of studies. The methodological quality of economic evaluation of all articles has been scrutinized against the checklist developed by Evers Silvia and associates. Result: Of 1784 potential articles 12 were accepted for inclusion. Ten studies described the competing alternatives clearly and only two articles stated the perspective of their articles clearly. All st