The Spinal Cord Injury Vocational Integration Program (SCI-VIP) is a 5-year multisite randomized clinical trial to test for differences in employment and rehabilitation outcomes in veterans with spinal cord injury, including a cost-effectiveness analysis. This article provides a review of the background on economic analyses in health care and a description of the methods we will follow for the cost-effectiveness analysis of the SCI-VIP intervention.

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