Table 4.

Economic Analyses Guidelines by Opportunities for Incorporation

	Category
	Acute Therapy	Chronic Therapy	Risk Factor Reduction	Screening	Surgical Therapy	Total
Condition	Myocardial infarction	Asthma	Smoking cessation	Colorectal cancer	Breast cancer
Economic analyses
Opportunities for economic analyses to be incorporated in guidelines, n	94	35	36	92	43	300
Economic analyses incorporated in text, n (%)	4 (4)	0 (0)	4 (11)	8 (9)	0 (0)	16 (5)
Economic analyses incorporated in references, n (%)	9 (10)	3 (9)	7 (19)	10 (11)	0 (0)	29 (10)
Economic analyses scoring >mean*
Opportunities for economic analyses to be incorporated in guidelines, n	61	18	25	68	26	198
Economic analyses incorporated in text, n (%)	2 (3)	0 (0)	4 (16)	7 (10)	0 (0)	13 (7)
Economic analyses incorporated in references, n (%)	3 (5)	1 (6)	6 (24)	8 (12)	0 (0)	18 (9)

^*The mean score for economic analyses is 69% (median, 72%).