OA01.03. Sample size and regions of principally achievable significance in cost effectiveness studies: an example of complementary medicine
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Purpose Health economic studies gain more and more importance in both conventional and complementary medicine. In most cases such studies are conducted as a combination of a RCT and a health economic evaluation (“Piggy-Back-Studies”). Therefore study planning parameters like sample size still are calculated on the basis of the outcome of the clinical parameters. This might lead to situations of underpowering.
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