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Valuing health care : costs, benefits, and effectiveness of pharmaceuticals and other medical technologies

Title
Valuing health care : costs, benefits, and effectiveness of pharmaceuticals and other medical technologies / [edited by] Frank A. Sloan.
Publication
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, c1995.

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Additional Authors
Sloan, Frank A.
Description
xi, 273 p.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Medical care > Cost effectiveness > Research > Methodology
  • Drugs > Cost effectiveness > Research > Methodology
  • Cost-Benefit Analysis > methods
  • Health Services
  • Evaluation Studies as Topic
  • Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care) > economics
  • Economics, Pharmaceutical
  • United States
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 245-267) and index.
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.
ISBN
052147020X (hardback)
LCCN
94009554
OCLC
  • 30069798
  • ocm30069798
  • SCSB-4774419
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Columbia University Libraries