A Guide to Handling Missing Data in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Conducted Within Randomised Controlled Trials

PharmacoEconomics

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1157-1170

  Faria, Rita ^a   Gomes, Manuel ^b   Epstein, David ^a,c   White, Ian R ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

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

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRANADA   (Spain)

^d MRC BIOSTATISTICS UNIT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FOLLOW UP; HANDLE MISSING DATA; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTENTION TO TREAT ANALYSIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PATIENT CODING; PATIENT PARTICIPATION; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL (TOPIC); RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; PROCEDURES; STANDARDS; STATISTICS;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HUMANS; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIALS AS TOPIC; STATISTICS AS TOPIC;

EID: 84912523498     PISSN: 11707690     EISSN: 11792027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40273-014-0193-3     Document Type: Article

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