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Are the Results of the Study Valid?
What are the Results?
Will the Results Help in Caring for My Patients?
Are the Results of the Study Valid?
Did the analysis provide a full economic comparison of health care stragegies?
Were the costs and outcomes properly measured and valued?
Was appropriate allowance made for uncertainties in the analysis?
Are estimates of costs and outcomes related to the baseline risk in the treatment
population?
What were the incremental costs and outcomes of each strategy?
Do incremental costs and outcomes differ between sub-groups?
How much does allowance for uncertainty change the results?
Will the Results Help in Caring for My Patients?
Are the treatment benfits worth the harms and costs?
Would my patients expect similar health outcomes?
Could I expect similar costs?