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Missing... presumed at random: cost-analysis of incomplete data.

Andrew Briggs1, Taane Clark, Jane Wolstenholme

  • 1Health Economics Research Centre, University of Oxford, Institute of Health Sciences, Headington, UK. andrew.biggs@ihs.oc.ac.uk

Health Economics
|April 30, 2003
PubMed
Summary

Missing patient resource use data is common in economic evaluations. Imputation methods offer a superior alternative to complete case or available case analysis for handling missing data, improving statistical inference.

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Area of Science:

  • Health Economics
  • Biostatistics
  • Health Services Research

Background:

  • Patient-level resource use data collection for economic evaluations frequently results in missing observations.
  • Standard statistical methods like complete case analysis (CCA) and available case analysis (ACA) have significant limitations when handling missing data.
  • CCA can lead to inefficiency and bias, while ACA introduces severe problems for statistical inference due to varying sample sizes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To explore and illustrate the utility of imputation methods for addressing missing patient-level resource use data.
  • To provide a robust statistical approach that overcomes the limitations of CCA and ACA.
  • To enable complete case analysis on the entire dataset by generating plausible replacement values for missing data.

Main Methods:

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  • Exploration of various imputation techniques for generating replacement values for missing resource use data.
  • Application and illustration of these imputation methods using two distinct datasets with incomplete resource use information.
  • Comparison of imputation methods against traditional approaches like CCA and ACA in the context of economic evaluations.

Main Results:

  • Imputation methods allow for complete case analysis on the full dataset, mitigating the inefficiencies and biases associated with CCA.
  • The proposed methods address the severe inferential problems caused by the varying sample sizes inherent in ACA.
  • Demonstration of how imputation can be practically applied to real-world economic evaluation datasets.

Conclusions:

  • Imputation methods represent a statistically sound and efficient approach to handling missing patient-level resource use data in economic evaluations.
  • Adoption of imputation techniques can lead to more reliable and robust statistical inference in health economic analyses.
  • Researchers should consider imputation as a primary strategy for managing missing data to enhance the validity of economic evaluations.