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A Monte Carlo-based uncertainty calculation
Our main goal here is to stress that the basic ethical requirement to randomize patients in clinical trials is that physicians and patients must not have preferences for any of the therapies considered i.e. they should be in the state of uncertainty or equipoise [ 9 ] . If uncertainty does not exist, it is felt to be unethical to ask patients to participate in RCTs [ 9 ] .
To assess if uncertainty regarding a clinical question exists, researchers should evaluate the totality of pre-existing knowledge: if we already knew that one treatment is superior to another, nothing new could be learned and we would unnecessarily expose our patients to already known inferior treatment by performing a new trial.
However, this only means that the uncertainty about the role of EPO could have been solved even earlier (if these patients were available for CMA or a large RCT).
Regardless of the method used to estimate WTP, there are measurement errors, data inadequacies, and ongoing debates about the best practices for each method that contribute to the overall uncertainty of economic estimates.