Developing appropriate methods for cost-effectiveness analysis of cluster randomized trials

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 350-361

  Gomes, Manuel ^a   Ng, Edmond S W ^a   Grieve, Richard ^a   Nixon, Richard ^b   Carpenter, James ^a   Thompson, Simon G ^c  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF HYGIENE AND TROPICAL MEDICINE   (United Kingdom)

^b NOVARTIS PHARMA AG   (Switzerland)

^c MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cost effectiveness analysis; randomized trial methodology; statistical methods

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; LUNG DISEASE; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PATIENT EDUCATION; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; LUNG DISEASES; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTILEVEL ANALYSIS; OUTCOME AND PROCESS ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PATIENT EDUCATION AS TOPIC; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUTH AFRICA; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 84859358446     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: 1552681X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X11418372     Document Type: Article

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