Economic evaluation of a combined screening and stepped-care treatment program targeting psychological distress in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer: A cluster randomized controlled trial.
Mohamed El AliliClaudia S E W SchuurhuizenAnnemarie M J BraamseAartjan T F BeekmanMecheline H van der LindenInge R KoningsJoost DekkerJudith E BosmansPublished in: Palliative medicine (2020)
The intervention is dominant over usual care, primarily due to lower costs in the intervention group. However, there were no statistically significant differences in clinical effects and the uptake of the intervention was quite low. Therefore, widespread implementation cannot be recommended.