The effect of model selection on cost-effectiveness research: a comparison of kidney function-based microsimulation and disease grade-based microsimulation in chronic kidney disease modeling
Abstract Background Cost effectiveness research is emerging in the chronic kidney disease (CKD) research field. Especially, an individual-level state transition model (microsimulation) is widely used for these researches. Some researchers set CKD grades as discrete health states, and the transition...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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BMC
2018-11-01
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| Series: | BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making |
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| Online Access: | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12911-018-0678-7 |