CHEERS Reporting Guidelines for Economic Evaluations (original) (raw)

Guide to Statistics and Methods

Reporting Guidelines

April 7, 2021

JAMA Surg. 2021;156(7):677-678. doi:10.1001/jamasurg.2021.0540

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In 2009, the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research (ISPOR)1 formed a 10-person taskforce to promote more standardized and rigorous reporting of economic evaluations. They conducted a 2-round modified Delphi panel including taskforce members plus an international, multidisciplinary team of 37 experts. Forty-four candidate items derived from 10 preexisting checklists and guidance documents were trimmed to 24. After comments from ISPOR members were solicited and reviewed, the ISPOR taskforce published CHEERS (Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standards) simultaneously across 10 English-language journals in 2013. It can be downloaded for free and has been translated into Portuguese and Spanish. Although many journals recommend adherence to CHEERS, it is unknown what proportion of published economic evaluations base their reporting on the CHEERS checklist. A systematic review2 that includes original taskforce authors is being conducted to assess levels of transparency and reproducibility in contemporary economic evaluations of health care interventions and to investigate whether transparency and reproducibility have improved since the 2013 publication of CHEERS.

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