“…Eight articles were excluded mainly, but not exclusively, because they did not report on health economic outcome parameters [12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19]. Three articles were excluded because the intervention was not a DHI aimed at secondary stroke prevention [20, 21, 22], 7 articles were excluded because they were reviews after thorough screening of the reference list [15, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28], 1 article because it was a study protocol [29], and another article because the stroke patients were not the target population [30]. Zero papers were withheld for inclusion in this review.…”