Table 3.

Data extracted from included articles. Reprinted from Ruger & Emmons (63)

1. Author

2. Years of study

3. Topic and study questions

4. Setting

5. Type of economic analysis

6. Year of publication

7. Intervention type

8. Health outcomes

9. Methods used to define effectiveness and preferences: time trade-off, standard gamble or rating scale, source of weights

10. Resource and cost estimates: net costs, gross- or microcosting, year, currency

11. Inclusion of original analyses

12. Study perspective

13. Description of comparator intervention

14. Study assumptions

15. Study type and design: clinical trial, observational study, decision analytical model

16. Modeling assumptions

17. Variable estimates

18. Discounting

19. Sensitivity analyses performed: for costs, effectiveness, preference weights, discount rate

20. Funding source

21. Comparison with other economic evaluations