Understanding public opposition to negative reimbursement decisions in healthcare: Dataset underlying the systematic review

Methods

The searches were conducted in 2021 with updates in 2022 and 2024, and supplemented by a targeted hand search. Each included article was reviewed in full and coded using a thematic framework approach based on the ‘Five Ws’—Who, What, When, Where, and Why. The framework is applied across nine main actors involved in negative reimbursement decisions (i.e., decision-makers, citizens, patients (and representatives), physicians, pharmaceutical companies, politicians, scholars, media, and courts) and the thematic categories identified in the review (e.g., types of opposition, expressions of opposition, interpretations of evidence, contextual factors).

Results It also includes excerpts and descriptive summaries from the reviewed articles, organized per theme. Conclusion The dataset provides a structured thematic overview of public opposition to negative reimbursement decisions in healthcare across multiple actors and contextual categories.