Table 3.
Overview of Health Economic Perspective, Results, and Quality
| Perspective of analysis | Telehealth cheaper | Telehealth more expensive | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Study | CHEERS | Study | CHEERS | |||
| Health Service - Funder (public) | Beard (Beard et al., 2017) | 12 | Hollinghurst (Hollinghurst et al., 2013)*^ | 20 | ||
| Bettger (Bettger et al., 2020) | ||||||
| Kloek (Kloeketal., 2018)*^ | 19 | |||||
| Mallett (Mallett et al., 2014)* | 11 | |||||
| Pastora-Bemal (Pastora-Bemal, Martín-Valero, & Barón-López,2018) | 16 | |||||
| Tousignant (Tousignant et al., 2015)# | 21 | |||||
| Zachwieja (Zachwieja et al., 2020) | 19 | |||||
| Health Service - Funder (private) | Horton (Horton etal., 2021) | 14 | Nil | |||
| Health Service - Provider (public) | Cottrell (Cottrell et al., 2019)* | 19 | ||||
| Societal | Kloek (Kloek et al., 2018)*^ | 21 | ||||
| Patient | Fatoye (Fatoye et al., 2020)^ | 16 | ||||
*
Findings in favour of telehealth intervention but significance of cost comparison not reported or not achieved
^
CUA presented supporting cost-effectiveness of telehealth
#
Comparator home visits <30km travel distance not significantly cheaper