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Table 2 CHEC Quality Assessment Checklist

From: Arts and creativity interventions for improving health and wellbeing in older adults: a systematic literature review of economic evaluation studies

 

Title

Coulton et al., (2015) [62]

Johnston et al., (2018)

Silver Song Club

Community of Voices

1

Is the study population clearly described?

✓

✓

2

Are competing alternatives clearly described?

✓

✓

3

Is a well-defined research question posed in an answerable form?

✓

✓

4

Is the economic study design appropriate to the stated objective?

✓

✓

5

Is the chosen time horizon appropriate to include relevant costs and consequences?

✓

✓

6

Is the actual perspective chosen appropriate?

✓

✓

7

Are all important and relevant costs for each alternative identified?

✓

✓

8

Are all costs measured appropriately in physical units?

✓

✓

9

Are costs valued appropriately?

✓

✓

10

Are all important and relevant outcomes for each alternative identified?

✓

✓

11

Are all outcomes measured appropriately?

✓

✓

12

Are outcomes valued appropriately?

✓

✓

13

Is an incremental analysis of costs and outcomes of alternatives performed?

✓

xa

14

Are all future costs and outcomes discounted appropriately?

✓

✓

15

Are all important variables, whose values are uncertain, appropriately subjected to sensitivity analysis?

✓

✓

16

Do the conclusions follow from the data reported?

✓

✓

17

Does the study discuss the generalizability of the results to other settings and patient/client groups?

✓

✓

18

Does the article indicate that there is no potential conflict of interest of study researcher(s) and funder(s)?

✓

✓

19

Are ethical and distributional issues discussed appropriately?

✓

✓

  1. aNo difference between groups therefore no need to perform Incremental cost effectiveness analysis