Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health
A Practical Approach
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Beschreibung
This second edition of Cost Effectiveness Analysis in Healthreviews issues and methods of assessing health care technologiesand related programs. It emphasizes methods to perform economicevaluations, such as cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis;methods to assess efficacy, effectiveness, and safety of healthcare technologies; effectiveness research; and applications toclinical and public policy. The book provides in-depth discussionof the uses and conducting of cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs) asdecision-making aids in public health, health services, andmedicine. It explores cost-effectiveness in the context of societaldecision making for resource allocation purposes. Chapter topicsinclude: Defining and explaining cost-effectiveness, principles ofcost-effectiveness analysis, how to develop a research project,working with costs, probabilities and models, calculating lifeexpectancy, working with health-related quality of life measures,calculating quality-adjusted life years, conducting a sensitivityanalysis, preparing your study for publication, working with data,and finding the data you need.
"For instructors, data sets and other ancillary materialsare freely available at http://www.pceo.org/."
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Peter Muennig
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"Few authors share Dr. Muennig's gift for reducing a complex topicto a series of practical steps that mere mortals can easily follow.This instruction manual for cost-effectiveness research, as theauthor accurately describes it, provides numerous tips andreal-world examples. The book is essential reading for anyonedesigning a pharmacoeconomic or comparative-effectiveness clinicalstudy." (Journal of Clinical Research Best Practices,November 2010)
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