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Title Valuing health care : costs, benefits, and effectiveness of pharmaceuticals and other medical technologies / edited by Frank A. Sloan
Published Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1995

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Description xi, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Contents 1. Introduction / Frank A. Sloan -- 2. Evidence of effectiveness: evaluating its quality / Allan S. Detsky -- 3. Utility assessment for estimating quality-adjusted life years / Robert M. Kaplan -- 4. Measuring costs / David Dranove -- 5. From cost-effectiveness ratios to resource allocation: where to draw the line? / Milton C. Weinstein -- 6. Valuing health care benefits in money terms / Mark V. Pauly -- 7. Discounting health effects for medical decisions / W. Kip Viscusi -- 8. Statistical issues in cost-effectiveness analyses / John Mullahy and Willard Manning -- 9. Decision trees and Markov models in cost-effectiveness research / Emmett Keeler -- 10. The use of cost-effectiveness/cost-benefit analysis in actual decision making: current status and prospects / Frank A. Sloan and Christopher J. Conover
Summary Papers describing the state of the art in cost benefit and cost effectiveness analysis
Analysis Health services Economics
United States
Health services Economics
United States
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-267) and index
Subject Drugs -- Cost effectiveness -- Research -- Methodology.
Medical care -- Cost effectiveness -- Research -- Methodology.
Outcome assessment (Medical care) -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Cost effectiveness.
Drugs -- Dictionaries.
Drugs -- Cost effectiveness -- Research -- Methodology.
Evaluation studies
Medical care -- Cost effectiveness -- Research -- Methodology.
Medical technology -- Cost effectiveness -- Research -- Methodology.
Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care) -- economics -- United States
Outcome assessment (Medical care) -- Economic aspects -- United States.
Outcome assessment (Medical care) -- United States.
Cost-Benefit Analysis.
Economics, Pharmaceutical.
Health Services.
Cost-Benefit Analysis -- methods.
Health Services.
Economics, Pharmaceutical.
Evaluation Studies as Topic.
Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care) -- economics.
Cost-Benefit Analysis -- methods.
Economics, Pharmaceutical.
Evaluation Studies as Topic.
Health Services.
Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care) -- economics.
SUBJECT United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Genre/Form Evaluation Studies.
Evaluation Studies.
Dictionaries.
Author Sloan, Frank A.
LC no. 94009554
ISBN 052147020X (hardback)
(hardback)