title: Randomized controlled trial and economic evaluation.
abstract: Conducting economic evaluation alongside clinical trials is an efficient way of getting valid and reliable information with minimum assumptions made during data collection. However, design of a randomised control trial (RCT) takes away several of the real world situations, the variations in resource utilisation, their cost due to close supervision and monitoring of the study subjects. Suitable sensitivity analysis has to be done to make the economic data obtained more pragmatic and hence utilised by the policy makers.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jain
authors.forename: N K
authors.initials: NK
authors.lastname: Arora
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003365:Costs and Cost Analysis; D003625:Data Collection; D006801:Humans; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic / Q000191:economics* / Q000379:methods; D018401:Sample Size; D012680:Sensitivity and Specificity