Distribution of modified Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standard (CHEERS) quality assessment scores.

Plot representation: The horizontal line inside the box represents the median. The lower and upper borders of the box represent the 25th and 75th percentiles, respectively. The whiskers indicate 1.5 times the interquartile range from the lower and upper borders of the box. All CHEERS scores are presented as a percent of total possible score; the full CHEERS criteria assessment [ 28 ] was performed for cost-effectiveness studies and a modified set of relevant criteria were assessed for cost-of-illness and cost-of-program studies, as explained in S2 Table . CHEERS, Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Reporting Standard. (TIFF)