Productivity Benefits of Medical Care: Evidence from US-Based Randomized Clinical Trials.

ABSTRACT:

Background

One of the key recommendations of the Second Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine is to take a societal perspective when evaluating new technologies-including measuring the productivity benefits of new treatments. Yet relatively little is known about the impact that new treatments have on labor productivity.

Objectives

To examine the relationship between new drug treatments and gains in labor productivity across conditions in the United States and to evaluate which randomized clinical trials (RCTs) collected labor productivity data.

Methods

We collected data on US-based RCTs with work-ability surveys from searches of Google Scholar, PubMed, Scopus, the Cochrane Central Registry of Clinical Trials, and ClinicalTrails.gov. Combining RCT data wit

SUBMITTER: Chen AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6092019 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature