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Valuing health care : costs, benefits, and effectiveness of pharmaceuticals and other medical technologies / edited by Frank A. Sloan. - xi, 273 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Evidence of effectiveness: evaluating its quality / Allan S. Detsky -- Utility assessment for estimating quality-adjusted life years / Robert M. Kaplan -- Measuring costs / David Dranove -- From cost-effectiveness ratios to resource allocation: where to draw the line? / Milton C. Weinstein -- Valuing health care benefits in money terms / Mark V. Pauly -- Discounting health effects for medical decisions / W. Kip Visusi -- Statistical issues in cost-effectiveness analyses / John Mullahy, Willard Manning -- Decision trees and Markov models in cost-effectiveness research / Emmett Keeler -- The use of cost-effectiveness/cost-benefit analysis in actual decision making: current status and prospects / Frank A. Sloan, Christopher J. Conover.

ISBN: 052147020X (hardback) 0521576466 (pbk.)

LCCN: 94009554

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Cost-Benefit Analysis--methods
Health Services
Economics, Pharmaceutical
Evaluation Studies as Topic
Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care--economics

Subjects--Index Terms: United States

National Library of Medicine Call No.: W 74 / V35 1995