BMJ 2002;325:1124 ( 16 November )

Editorials

New BMJ policy on economic evaluations

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

Papers p 1135

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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.2 Unfortunately this is a common pattern---for the Lancet to publish the clinical results and us to publish the economic evaluation. We have decided that this can't continue. We will now consider for publication economic evaluations based on clinical trials only if the clinical results are submitted to us as well. This is partly petulance, but we think our policy is reasonable.

The clinical world has been sceptical about economic evaluations, worrying that it is too easy for sponsors, particularly pharmaceutical companies, to get the results they want. Evidence shows that many economic evaluations have been of low quality.3 But both of these things are also true of randomised trials: many have 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
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Judge economic evaluations on scientific merit.
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bmj.com, 12 Dec 2002 [Full text]
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bmj.com, 20 Dec 2002 [Full text]
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