Table 2 Items on article screening form
From: Micro-costing studies in the health and medical literature: protocol for a systematic review
| Phase 1 screening: | |
| Full length article (yes/no) | |
| Original research article (yes/no) | |
| Economic evaluation (yes/no) | |
| Health- or healthcare-related (yes/no) | |
| Other reason for exclusion (yes/no, and if yes, specify the reason) | |
| All phase 1 screening criteria met (yes/no) | |
| Phase 2 screening (if all phase 1 screening criteria are met): | |
| Costing methods clear (yes/no) | |
| Applied gross-costing (entirely gross-costing, partial gross-costing, no gross-costing, or not clear) | |
| Applied micro-costing (yes, no, or not clear) | |
| Extent of micro-costing (if micro-costing used): for example, whether micro-costing was used for the entire study or for part of the study | |
| Type of micro-costing (if micro-costing used): patient-level direct enumeration and unit cost of all inputs consumed; program-level direct enumeration and unit cost of all inputs consumed, then allocated to each participant; and so on. | |
| Applied other costing methods (yes, no, or not clear, and if yes, specify the methods used) | |
| Whether authors referred to their study as micro-costing (yes/no) | |
| Whether to include the article in final data extraction (yes/no) | |
| Any additional notes about this article | |