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Surgical research has traditionally focused on comparing health outcome measures of a new technique with accepted practice. As health care resources become scarcer and options for newer, more expensive diagnostic tests and surgical interventions increase, incorporating cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) into surgical research studies becomes increasingly important. CEA provides the information necessary to allow resource allocation decisions to be based on the best balance between health outcomes and cost. Thus research data collection and analysis must include not just direct health outcome, but also financial costs and both positive and negative changes in life expectancy and in quality of life (1).
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Stothers, L. (2006). Cost-Effectiveness Analyses. In: Penson, D.F., Wei, J.T. (eds) Clinical Research Methods for Surgeons. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-230-4_16
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