Study-type module for economic evaluations in health care. Provides section-by-section guidance aligned with the CHEERS 2022 reporting standard, covering cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA), cost-utility analysis (CUA), cost-benefit analysis (CBA), decision-analytic modelling, probabilistic sensitivity analysis, and presentation of ICERs, cost-effectiveness planes, and cost-effectiveness acceptability curves.
This module governs manuscript generation for economic evaluations of health care interventions. Economic evaluations compare the costs and health outcomes of two or more alternatives to inform resource allocation decisions. This module covers cost-effectiveness analyses (CEA), cost-utility analyses (CUA), and cost-benefit analyses (CBA), as well as the decision-analytic models that underpin them (decision trees, Markov models, microsimulations, and partitioned survival models).
The primary reporting guideline for economic evaluations is the Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards 2022:
Husereau D, Drummond M, Augustovski F, et al. Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards 2022 (CHEERS 2022) statement: updated reporting guidance for health economic evaluations. Value Health. 2022;25(1):3-9.
Also published simultaneously in:
Husereau D, Drummond M, Augustovski F, et al. Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards 2022 (CHEERS 2022) statement: updated reporting guidance for health economic evaluations. BMJ. 2022;376:e067975.
The CHEERS 2022 checklist contains 28 items organised across seven sections (Title, Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, Other).
When citing the guideline in the Methods section, use the following phrasing:
"This economic evaluation was conducted and reported in accordance with the Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards 2022 (CHEERS 2022) (Husereau et al., Value Health 2022;25:3-9)."
See references/cheers-checklist.md for the full 28-item CHEERS 2022
checklist.
Specify the type of economic evaluation and the modelling framework. Template