Background Economic evaluations of health interventions pose a particular challenge for
reporting because substantial information must be conveyed to allow scrutiny of study
findings. Despite a growth in published reports, existing reporting guidelines are not widely
adopted. There is also a need to consolidate and update existing guidelines and promote
their use in a user-friendly manner. A checklist is one way to help authors, editors, and peer
reviewers use guidelines to improve reporting. Objective The task force's overall goal was to …

Health economic evaluations are comparative analyses of alternative courses of action in
terms of their costs and consequences. The Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation
Reporting Standards (CHEERS) statement, published in 2013, was created to ensure health
economic evaluations are identifiable, interpretable, and useful for decision making. It was
intended as guidance to help authors report accurately which health interventions were
being compared and in what context, how the evaluation was undertaken, what the findings …