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Applied methods of cost-effectiveness analysis in health care /

The third volume in the Handbooks in Health Economic Evaluation series, this book provides the reader with a comprehensive set of instructions and examples of how to perform an economic evaluation of a health intervention. It focuses solely on cost-effectiveness analysis in health care. The book is...

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Other Authors: Gray, Alastair, 1953-, Clarke, Philip M., Wolstenholme, Jane L., Wordsworth, Sarah
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2011.
Subjects:
Medical economics.
Cost effectiveness.
Medical care, Cost of.
Cost-Benefit Analysis > methods
Economics, Medical
Health Care Costs
Outcome Assessment, Health Care > methods
Quality of Health Care > economics
Cost-Benefit Analysis
cost benefit analysis.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780191551680
0191551686
1283580454
9781283580458
9786613892904
6613892904
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • 1 Introduction
  • 2 Economic evaluation in health care
  • 3 Life tables and extrapolation
  • 4 Modelling outcomes using patient-level data
  • 5 Measuring, valuing, and analysing health outcomes
  • 6 Defining, measuring, and valuing costs
  • 7 Analysing costs
  • 8 Decision analytic modelling : decision trees
  • 9 Decision analytic modelling : Markov models
  • 10 Representing uncertainty in decision analytic models
  • 11 Presenting cost-effectiveness results
  • 12 Summing up and future directions.

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