Cost-effectiveness of cardiac telerehabilitation in coronary artery disease and heart failure patients: systematic review of randomized controlled trials

. 2020 Nov 23;1(1):20–29. doi: 10.1093/ehjdh/ztaa005

	CHEC list	Cowie²³	Whittaker¹⁹	Frederix¹⁸	Kidholm²¹	Frederix¹⁴	Kraal²²	Hwang²⁰	Maddison¹⁵
1.	Is the study population clearly described?	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
2.	Are competing alternatives clearly described?	X		X	X	X	X	X	X
3.	Is a well-defined research question posed in answerable form?	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
4.	Is the economic study design appropriate to the stated objective?	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
5.	Is the chosen time horizon appropriate in order to include relevant costs and consequences?	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
6.	Is the actual perspective chosen appropriate?	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
7.	Are all important and relevant costs for each alternative identified?	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
8.	Are all costs measured appropriately in physical units?	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
9.	Are costs valued appropriately?	X	X	X		X	X	X	X
10.	Are all important and relevant outcomes for each alternative identified?	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
11.	Are all outcomes measured appropriately?	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
12.	Are outcomes valued appropriately?	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
13.	Is an incremental analysis of costs and outcomes of alternatives performed?	X		X	X	X		X	X
14.	Are all future costs and outcomes discounted appropriately?								X
15.	Are all important variables, whose values are uncertain, appropriately subjected to sensitivity analysis?	X			X		X	X	X
16.	Do the conclusions follow from the data reported?	X	X	X	X	X	X	X	X
17.	Does the study discuss the generalizability of the results to other settings and patient/client groups?	X	X	X	X	X	X		X
18.	Does the article indicate that there is no potential conflict of interest of study researcher(s) and funder(s)?	X		X	X	X	X	X	X
19.	Are ethical and distributional issues discussed appropriately?			X		X	X
Percentage		95%	68%	89%	84%	89%	89%	84%	95%