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Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine by Marthe R. Gold, Joanna E. Siegel, Louise B. Russell, Milton C. Weinstein is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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A unique, in-depth discussion of the uses and conduct of cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs) as decision-making aids in the health and medical fields, this volume is the product of over two years of comprehensive research and deliberation by a multi-disciplinary panel of economists, ethicists, psychometricians, and clinicians. Exploring cost-effectiveness in the context of societal decision-making for resource allocation purposes, this volume proposes that analysts include a "reference-case" analysis in all CEAs designed to inform resource allocation and puts forth the most explicit set of guidelines (together with their rationale) ever defined on the conduct of CEAs. Important theoretical and practical issues encountered in measuring costs and effectiveness, evaluating outcomes, discounting, and dealing with uncertainty are examined in separate chapters. Additional chapters on framing and reporting of CEAs elucidate the purpose of the analysis and the effective communication of its findings. __Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine__ differs from the available literature in several key aspects. Most importantly, it represents a consensus on standard methods--a feature integral t

Who reads Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine?

Author

Marthe R. Gold, Joanna E. Siegel, Louise B. Russell, Milton C. Weinstein

Publisher

Oxford University Press, USA

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195108248

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Medical, Business, Economics