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The `effectiveness revolution' both in research and clinical practice, has tested available methods for health services research to the extreme. How far can observational methods, routine data and qualitative methods be used in health care evaluation? What cost and outcome measures are appropriate, and how should data be gathered? With the support of over two million pounds from the British Health Technology Assessment Research Programme, the research project for this Handbook has led to both a synthesis of all of the existing knowledge in these areas and an agenda for future debate and research. The chapters and their authors have been selected through a careful process of peer review and provide a coher
Collecting Resource Use Data for Costing in Clinical Trials
Collecting Resource Use Data for Costing in Clinical Trials
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The recent increase in the number of economic evaluations being conducted alongside, or as an integral part of, clinical trials has provided the opportunity to collect and analyse patient-specific resource use (and hence cost) data. These opportunities have in turn focused attention on a range of important methodological issues concerning the collection of resource use data for costing purposes. This chapter identifies and discusses these methodological issues in order to establish how more informed and appropriate choices could be made in the future about the design, conduct and analysis of data for costing in clinical trials.
This chapter considers the different types of costs and the factors ...
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