New BMJ policy on economic evaluations

doi:10.1136/bmj.325.7373.1124

BMJ 2002;325:1124 ( 16 November )

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New BMJ policy on economic evaluations

We won't publish economic evaluations unless offered the clinical results as well

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This week we publish an economic evaluation of screening for abdominal aortic aneurysms.¹ It is based on a randomised trial.At the same time the Lancet is publishing the clinical results.²Unfortunately this is a common pattern $---$ for the Lancet to publishthe clinical results and us to publish the economic evaluation.We have decided that this can't continue. We will now considerfor publication economic evaluations based on clinical trialsonly if the clinical results are submitted to us as well. Thisis partly petulance, but we think our policy isreasonable.

The clinical world has been sceptical about economic evaluations, worrying that it is too easy for sponsors, particularlypharmaceutical companies, to get the results they want. Evidenceshows that many economic evaluations have been of low quality.³But both of these things are also true of randomised trials: manyhave been of low quality,⁴ and pharmaceutical companies . . . [Full text of this article]

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New BMJ economic studies policy: Ralph Crott
bmj.com, 15 Nov 2002 [Full text]
Coherent publication of economic analyses: John Forbes
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