Also consider that cost-effectiveness analysis methods are not very different depending on the therapeutic area (i.e. oncology) or type of medical intervention (i.e. rad onc). Therefore you may also be interested in more general advice, e.g. as generated by ISPOR groups, see the 'Economic Evaluation Methods' and 'Modeling Methods' sections at: http://www.ispor.org/workpaper/practices_index.asp

Rob

hi fabio, this is a good primer for CEAs in oncology

Article Interpreting the Economic Literature in Oncology

A well-known and easily understandable article on cost-effectiveness analysis for the clinician: http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=703988

Also consider that cost-effectiveness analysis methods are not very different depending on the therapeutic area (i.e. oncology) or type of medical intervention (i.e. rad onc). Therefore you may also be interested in more general advice, e.g. as generated by ISPOR groups, see the 'Economic Evaluation Methods' and 'Modeling Methods' sections at: http://www.ispor.org/workpaper/practices_index.asp

Rob

The book "Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes", written by Drummond. Very clear and easily understandable.

Drummond book is great. (can be said to be a classic in the CEA literature). But also one of the best is: "Decision Making in Health and Medicine: Integrating Evidence and Values"  M. G. Myriam Hunink. And for more advanced readers': "Decision Modelling for Health Economic Evaluation. A Briggs, M Sculpher, K Claxton". 

hi

The book in my publications due in 2015 (Chapman & Hall, 200 pages) has a special chapter on cost-effectiveness in oncology trials .

BW

Ifty Khan

Great!!!

Thanks to all suggestion

I will go for it

1.     Beinfeld MT, Wittenberg E, Gazelle SG. Cost-effectiveness of whole-body CT screening. Radiology. 2005;234:415-422.

Fryback and Thornbury seminal work on clinical efficacy 1991?

There are multiple papers on guidelines of cost-effectiveness analysis by Weinstein.