Table 6.
Transparency and validity
| Documentation availability* | Limitations explained | Interests of authors declared | Funding declared | Open source | Peer-reviewed publications | |
| CAPACITI | Yes | Yes, but no dedicated limitations section | No | No | Yes | Yes |
| PriorityVax | Yes | Yes, but no dedicated limitations section | No | Yes | No | Yes |
| HIPtool | No (work in progress) | No | No | No | No | Yes |
| Optima | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| OneHealth (Spectrum suite) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| LiST | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes |
| EQUIST | Yes | Yes, but no dedicated limitations section | No | Yes | No | Yes |
*This included both guidance manuals and technical reports. Other forms of documentation (presentations, online discussions, secondary reports) were available for some tools; however, these have not been included in the evaluation.
CAPACITI, Country-led Assessment for Priortisation in Immunisation; EQUIST, EQUitable Strategies to Save Lives Tool; HIPtool, Health Interventions Priortisation tool; LiST, Lives Saved Tool.