Cost of disorders of the brain in Spain.

Background: Brain disorders represent a high burden in Europe and worldwide. The objective of this study was to provide specific estimates of the economic costs of brain disorders in Spain, based on published epidemiological and economic evidence.

Methods: A cost-of-illness study with a societal perspective of 19 brain disorders was carried out.

Overviews of reviews often have limited rigor: a systematic review.

Objective: To examine published overviews of systematic reviews in terms of descriptive and methodological characteristics.

Study Design And Setting: MEDLINE, Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects, the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, and several Health Technology Assessment databases were searched for overviews of reviews up to February 2012. We extracted data from the methods and results sections of the included overviews.