Delays in publication of cost utility analyses conducted alongside clinical trials: registry analysis

More than 75% of cost utility analyses were published one year or more after publication of the trial's clinical results Comment We found a substantial delay in the publication of cost utility analyses, suggesting that reliable economic data are usually not available, at least in peer reviewed...

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Published inBMJ Vol. 328; no. 7455; pp. 1536 - 1537
Main Authors Greenberg, Dan, Rosen, Allison B, Olchanski, Natalia V, Stone, Patricia W, Nadai, John, Neumann, Peter J
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published London British Medical Journal Publishing Group 26.06.2004
BMJ Publishing Group
British Medical Association
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EditionInternational edition
Subjects
Benefit cost analysis
Biological and medical sciences
Clinical trials
Clinical Trials as Topic
Confidence intervals
Cost analysis
Cost control
Cost effectiveness analysis
Cost efficiency
Cost-Benefit Analysis - statistics & numerical data
Economic costs
Economic utility
Experimentation
Health care costs
Impact factors
Medical sciences
Miscellaneous
Public health. Hygiene
Public health. Hygiene-occupational medicine
Publishing
Quality of life
Registries
Studies
Time Factors
Utilities costs
Human
Medicine
Ethics
Periodical
Health economy
Scientific research
Published document
Clinical trial
Cost analysis
Publication time
Public health
Cost efficiency analysis
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Summary:More than 75% of cost utility analyses were published one year or more after publication of the trial's clinical results Comment We found a substantial delay in the publication of cost utility analyses, suggesting that reliable economic data are usually not available, at least in peer reviewed journals, for decision makers when decisions on adoption and reimbursement are typically made. [...]compared with trial results, dissemination of cost utility analyses takes place in journals with lower readership and influence.
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Correspondence to: D Greenberg, Harvard Clinical Research Institute, 930 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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This article was posted on bmj.com on 20 April 2004: http://bmj.com/cgi/doi/10.1136/bmj.38079.502326.AE
Contributors: DG had the original idea for the study, drafted the first version of the manuscript, did the statistical analysis, and is the guarantor. All authors extracted data, interpreted the findings, critically revised the report, and approved the final version.
Funding: Supported by grant number R01 HS10919 from the Agency for Health Care Research and Quality.
Correspondence to: D Greenberg, Harvard Clinical Research Institute, 930 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02215, USA dan.greenberg@hcri.harvard.edu
We thank Richard H Chapman for his contribution to the design and analysis of the Harvard School of Public Health Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Registry.
Competing interests: None declared.
ISSN:0959-8138
0959-8146
1468-5833
1756-1833
DOI:10.1136/bmj.38079.502326.AE