A scoping review shows that several nonvalidated budget planning tools for randomized trials are available.
Budget planning
Clinical trial cost
Randomized clinical trials
Resource use
Scoping review
Template
Journal
Journal of clinical epidemiology
ISSN: 1878-5921
Titre abrégé: J Clin Epidemiol
Pays: United States
ID NLM: 8801383
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 2020
01 2020
Historique:
received:
20
05
2019
revised:
16
08
2019
accepted:
12
09
2019
pubmed:
19
9
2019
medline:
7
8
2020
entrez:
19
9
2019
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
We aimed to provide a systematic overview of freely available tools which may help plan or monitor costs for randomized clinical trials (RCTs). We systematically searched MEDLINE, EMBASE, and EconLit and conducted internet searches via Google (last search, October 2018). We included all freely available tools and determined their specific purpose, which parts of clinical trial projects and which types of costs they covered, and if they were user-tested or validated in any form. We identified 25 available tools. Most tools were downloadable on websites from institutions related to clinical research. Seven tools were developed to plan the budget for an entire RCT, 17 tools for calculating budgets of an individual trial center, and one tool for monitoring costs of ongoing RCTs. Eighteen tools considered fixed, variable, and indirect costs. Only two tools were clearly user-tested or validated. Several freely available tools aim to support investigators in planning costs of an entire trial or in planning the budget for a clinical trial site. How valid and useful they are remains to be shown for most of them. Future tools should be openly shared, user-tested, and validated.
Identifiants
pubmed: 31533072
pii: S0895-4356(19)30439-1
doi: 10.1016/j.jclinepi.2019.09.009
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Systematic Review
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
9-19Informations de copyright
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