Valuing Health Care - Costs, Benefits, Effectiveness of Pharmaceuticals Other Medical

Zusammenfassung This book is about the cost effectiveness of present and future medical technologies. Methods of analysing cost effectiveness are described in terms of considering dollar value of treatment! quality of life and the rationale for deciding who should receive treatment in situations of rationed care. Essays in the book range from lay level to highly technical. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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.

Product details

• Authors: Frank A. Sloan, Frank A. (Duke University Sloan
• Assisted by: Frank A. Sloan (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.08.1996
• EAN: 9780521576468
• ISBN: 978-0-521-57646-8
• No. of pages: 288
• Subjects: Guides > Law, job, finance; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Economics