Valuing Health Care
Subtitle: Costs, Benefits, and Effectiveness of Pharmaceuticals and Other Medical Technologies
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 27, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780521470209
Subjects: Industry & Industrial Studies; Microeconomics; Pharmacology (Specific Aspects); Health Care Delivery; Medical Economics; methods; Business / Economics / Finance; Methodology; Business/Economics; Medical care; Industries - General; Economics - Microeconomics; Business & Economics / Microeconomics; Cost effectiveness; Research; Cost-Benefit Analysis; Drugs
First sentence: The basic components of a cost-effectiveness analysis are demonstration of the relative effectiveness of the new technology compared to the old, conversion of the effectiveness of the new technology into a common unit of measurement of benefit in order to make this measurement comparable to that of other, competing technologies, and the measurement of the incremental costs.