Abstract
Firstly, economists emphasise that their concern for the costs of interventions is due to the implications of opportunity costs—that is, resources used for one intervention should be compared with the potential benefits achievable by the next best option that is forgone because the resources for health care are finite.1 2 3 In an outcome maximisation design the opportunity costs of high cost interventions would be highlighted more clearly in the study results.

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