Table 1 Key items for framing aim, search strategy, and study inclusion and exclusion criteria following the PICOTS framework
Item | Definition |
|---|---|
Population | Patients with documented costs of health care services in any setting |
Intervention | Any prediction model designed to predict individual-level health care spending, patient probabilities for incurring costs of health care services in any setting, or probabilities for any changes in patient costs over time |
Comparator | Not applicable |
Outcomes | Any cost-related outcome as reported by prediction models |
Timing | Predictors measured at any time point preceding outcome; outcome measured in short-term or long-term without applying any specific limitation in prediction horizon |
Setting | Any health care setting |