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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2009 Aug 26.
Published in final edited form as: Value Health. 2007 Sep 13;11(2):180–190. doi: 10.1111/j.1524-4733.2007.00239.x

Table 3.

Criteria for assessing quality of economic evaluations*

Framing

  • Comparator intervention

  • Study perspective

  • Modeling assumptions and diagram

  • Discounting

Costs

  • Reporting of direct and indirect costs

  • Reporting of net costs

  • Costing source

  • Costs reported in single year

Effects

  • Health outcomes stated

  • Preferences and source stated

Results

  • Incremental cost-effectiveness ratios

  • Sensitivity analyses

Discussion

  • Study limitations

  • Comparison with other studies

*

From the checklist for reporting reference-case cost-utility analyses recommended by the Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine and guidelines for economic submissions to the BMJ; also consistent with the data auditing form developed by researchers at the Harvard Center for Risk Analysis.