Reproducibility of published model-based cancer drug cost-effectiveness analyses: a study protocol for a

Mikael Svensson1, Jonathan Siverskog2, Naimi Johansson3

  • 1University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden mikael.svensson.2@gu.se.

BMJ Open
|June 20, 2025
PubMed
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