As part of their practice, policymakers have to make economic evaluations using clinical trial data. Recent interest has been expressed in determining how cost-effectiveness analysis can be undertaken in a regression framework. In this respect, published research basically provides a general...

Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) compares the costs and outcomes of two or more technologies. However, there is no consensus about which measure of effectiveness should be used in each analysis. Clinical researchers have to select an appropriate outcome for their purpose, and this choice can...