Assessment of Consolidated Health Economic Evaluation Interventions Reporting Standards in Iran

 Writing any study requires compliance with specific standards in its field specialization, CHEERS, or consolidated health economic evaluation reporting standards, is a special tool for reporting on how to write economic evaluation studies in the field of health, which We decided to review the standards of economic evaluation studies in Iran.

 For this purpose, we searched for Keywords related to Iran and CHEERS and combined them in PubMed and Scopus databases, in which we conducted economic evaluation studies that were conducted in Iran and reviewed by other researchers with relevant tools. 

 A total of 13 secondary Articles, including 40 original articles, were found as eligible. The highest reported components were Incremental costs and outcomes, Background, and objectives, abstract, title, comparators, and component 22; i.e., study findings, limitations, generalizability, and current knowledge. However, in the report of components of funding sources, Measures of effectiveness and Characterizing heterogeneity are seen as weaknesses. In total, the average score of cheers for Iranian studies was reported with an average of 84.33 and a standard deviation of 15.15.

 In total, 80% of Iranian studies had met the standards at an excellent and very good level, and only three studies (7.5%) reported poor standards. However, there are still areas for improvement in the report of some Items.