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.