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is appropriate or not; whether the abstract is complete or not; are the objectives stated

clearly; are the intervention, comparator and target population described completely?

The next domain pertains to appropriateness of study methods. Following type
questions are addressed in this domain: whether the choice of model is appropriate or

not; what all costs have been included and their sources; appropriateness of these

sources; sources of effectiveness estimates and its appropriateness; sources of quality

of life estimates and appropriateness. The analysis part under this domain talks about

the appropriate conduct of various types of analyses as listed in the author section as
well. It also includes questions pertaining to the choice of discount rate and its

appropriateness as well as animalization of costs.

The next domain refers to appropriateness of reporting results of all the analyses

done in the study. For examples, the results of OWSA should be presented in the form

of tornado, CEAC and CE plane are constructed for PSA. This section focuses on the
quality of reporting the finding of the study so as to ease the interpretation of findings.

The next domain focuses on the discussion and conclusion part. It includes points

regarding, justification and validation of findings, generalizability, limitations of the

analysis, implications from the policy perspective and recommendations.

The last and the fifth domain (References) seeks information about accounting
for all the secondary sources of information mentioned in the text.

All the responses will be in the form of Yes, No, Not Applicable (NA), Not

Reported (NR) as well as rating on a scale of 1 to 10. They type of response expected

has been mentioned along with each question.

Reviewer section: Model review

This section consists of 8 domains which guide the reviewer to assess the model. The

first domain refers to basic information which comprises of necessary information

required to assist review of the model. It consists of key points like the type of platform

used for building the model; availability of a model dictionary containing brief analysis
description, index for different sheets, abbreviations, labels for different variables,

tables and figures and references; proper labelling of sheets, tables and figures;

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