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See note opening section II – 2.
CEA – Cost-effectiveness analysis.
Clinical research/study – The I.E.A. dictionary [4] defines clinical study as, “An investigation involving persons and aiming to understand or control disease and other health states in persons. Often – but not exclusively – carried out on patients, by physicians, and in a health care setting. Problems found worthy of investigation in caring for patients are frequently taken to the laboratories; yet the nature and purpose of the investigation often remains clinical, and the laboratory results must be tested again on actual persons – eventually by integrating epidemiological and statistical reasoning with clinical, pathophysical, and microbiological (e.g., genetic) reasoning [ref.].”
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