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1Department of Surgery, University of Cincinnati Medical Center, OH 45267-0558, USA.
Abstract:
There are unique requirements in conducting and reporting economic and quality of life investigations in medicine as compared with more traditional studies involving clinical outcomes. In addition, there are several unique characteristics of the discipline of transplantation that also bear attention in economic and quality of life studies. To provide guidelines for future research and reporting of future research, a consensus conference of transplant professionals was convened to discuss these issues. Five different areas were addressed: "Conducting an Economic Analysis," "Reporting an Economic Analysis," "Quality of Life Studies in Transplantation," "Ethical and Conflict of Interest Issues Between Sponsors and Investigators," and "Future Directions for Research." A series of recommendations for each of these areas with reference to relevant literature is presented.
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