Methods for analyzing cost effectiveness data from cluster randomized trials

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation

Volumn 5, Issue , 2007, Pages

  Bachmann, Max O ^a   Fairall, Lara ^b   Clark, Allan ^a   Mugford, Miranda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; ASTHMA; BAYES THEOREM; BOOTSTRAPPING; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH EDUCATION; HUMAN; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; LUNG DISEASE; LUNG TUBERCULOSIS; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATIENT REFERRAL; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 35348918185     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7547-5-12     Document Type: Article

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