costs, benefits, and effectiveness of pharmaceuticals and other medical technologies /
edited by Frank A. Sloan.
New York :
Cambridge University Press,
1995.
xi, 273 pages :
illustrations ;
24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-267) and index.
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.
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Papers describing the state of the art in cost benefit and cost effectiveness analysis.