Collecting and analysing cost data for complex public health trials: Reflections on practice

Global Health Action

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Batura, Neha ^a   Pulkki Brännström, Anni Maria ^a   Agrawal, Priya ^b   Bagra, Archana ^b   Haghparast Bidgoli, Hassan ^a   Bozzani, Fiammetta ^c   Colbourn, Tim ^a   Greco, Giulia ^c   Hossain, Tanvir ^d   Sinha, Rajesh ^e   Thapa, Bidur ^f   Skordis Worrall, Jolene ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b Sneha Health Care Centre   (India)

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

^d Health Economics Unit   (Bangladesh)

^e Ekjut   (India)

^f MIRA Nepal   (Nepal)

Author keywords

Cost data; Cost effectiveness analysis; LMIC; Multisite; Randomised control trials

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST DATA; COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMICS; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LMIC; METHODOLOGY; MULTICENTER STUDY (TOPIC); MULTISITE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; PUBLIC HEALTH; RANDOMISED CONTROL TRIALS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC);

COST DATA; COST-EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; LMIC; MULTISITE; RANDOMISED CONTROL TRIALS;

COMMUNITY-BASED PARTICIPATORY RESEARCH; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DATA COLLECTION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; HUMANS; MULTICENTER STUDIES AS TOPIC; PUBLIC HEALTH; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84904382718     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16549880     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/gha.v7.23257     Document Type: Article

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