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Article: Methods for analyzing cost effectiveness data from cluster randomized trials.(Methodology)
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- Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
- Article date:
- September 6, 2007
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Authors: Max O Bachmann (corresponding author) [1]; Lara Fairall [2]; Allan Clark [1]; Miranda Mugford [1]
Background
Cluster randomized trials are commonly used to evaluate the effectiveness and cost effectiveness of interventions in health care, health promotion and health professional education. Groups of individuals, such as doctors' patients or schools' pupils, are allocated together to receive different interventions or to follow usual practice. One key advantage of randomly allocating groups rather than individuals is that it permits inferences about the intervention's effects on service providers as well as on users. For ...
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