Buch, Englisch, 287 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 567 g
Costs, Benefits, and Effectiveness of Pharmaceuticals and Other Medical Technologies
Buch, Englisch, 287 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 567 g
ISBN: 978-0-521-47020-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press
As expenditure on health care has increasingly become an area of public debate and concern, public and private health care decision-makers have called for more rigorous use of cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis to guide spending. Concerns have arisen, however, about the overall quality of such analyses. This book discusses and evaluates best-practice methods of conducting cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness studies of pharmaceuticals and other medical technologies. It encompasses a wide variety of topics, ranging from measuring cost and effectiveness to discounting to the use of dynamic modelling of cost-effectiveness. The book also includes conceptual and practical aspects of cost-effectiveness analysis by researchers who have conducted applied research in these areas. Rarely does the book provide a singular solution to a measurement problem; rather, the reader is directed to choices among alternative approaches and an analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of each.
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Weitere Infos & Material
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. Alternative methods of allocating health resources under constraints Frank A. Sloan and Christopher J. Conover.
