Essentials Of Economic Evaluation In Healthcare
Publisher: Pharmaceutical Press
Published: January 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780853695745
Subjects: Health systems & services; Political economy; Medical / Nursing; Health Care Delivery; Health & Fitness; Health/Fitness; Economics - General; Health Care Issues
Table of contents: title: Preface
pagenum: xi; title: About The Authors
pagenum: xv; title: Abbreviations
pagenum: xvii; label: 1
title: Overview Of Health Economics
pagenum: 1; title: Introduction
pagenum: 1; title: Healthcare Economics Or Health Economics?
pagenum: 2; title: Why The Interest In Health Economics?
pagenum: 2; title: Scarcity And Choice And The NHS; title: Rational Decision-Making
pagenum: 5; title: The Market For Healthcare
pagenum: 8; title: Efficiency
pagenum: 13; title: Opportunity Cost
pagenum: 14; title: Allocative Efficiency And Technical Efficiency
pagenum: 15; title: Achieving Efficiency And The Role Of Economic Evaluation
pagenum: 17; title: Efficiency And Equity
pagenum: 17; title: Self-Directed Study Exercises
pagenum: 20; title: References
pagenum: 22; title: Further Reading
pagenum: 23; label: 2
title: Rationing Healthcare
pagenum: 25; title: Introduction
pagenum: 25; title: Is Rationing Inevitable?
pagenum: 25; title: Implicit Or Explicit Rationing?
pagenum: 26; title: Rationing In The UK
pagenum: 31; title: Rationing Lessons From Abroad
pagenum: 33; title: The 'Fair Innings' Argument
pagenum: 38; title: Conclusion
pagenum: 38; title: Self-Directed Study Exercises
pagenum: 39; title: References
pagenum: 43; title: Further Reading
pagenum: 44; label: 3
title: The Nature And Assessment Of Costs In Healthcare
pagenum: 45; title: Introduction
pagenum: 45; title: Identifying Costs
pagenum: 45; title: Types Of Costs
pagenum: 46; title: What Costs Need To Be Included In An Economic Evaluation?
pagenum: 50; title: How Are Costs Valued?
pagenum: 51; title: Costs Vs Charges
pagenum: 52; title: When To Stop Collecting Costs
pagenum: 53; title: Incremental Costs And Marginal Costs
pagenum: 53; title: Short-Term Vs Long-Term Costs
pagenum: 54; title: Discounting
pagenum: 56; title: Inflation
pagenum: 59; title: Cost Of Illness
pagenum: 59; title: Self-Directed Study Exercises
pagenum: 60; title: References
pagenum: 62; title: Further Reading
pagenum: 63; label: 4
title: Measuring Patient Outcomes For Use In Economic Evaluations
pagenum: 65; title: Introduction
pagenum: 65; title: Effectiveness
pagenum: 66; title: Quality Of Life
pagenum: 71; title: Utility
pagenum: 73; title: Expressing Benefits As Monetary Values
pagenum: 83; title: Quality Adjusted Life Years And Willingness To Pay
pagenum: 86; title: Discounting Outcomes
pagenum: 86; title: Self-Directed Study Exercise
pagenum: 86; title: References
pagenum: 87; title: Further Reading
pagenum: 88; label: 5
title: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
pagenum: 91; title: Introduction
pagenum: 91; title: The Components Of Economic Evaluation
pagenum: 92; title: Outcome Measures In Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
pagenum: 93; title: Incremental Economic Analysis
pagenum: 93; title: Ways Of Using Outcome Data In Incremental Economic Analysis
pagenum: 95; title: Using An Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Ratio To Make A Decision
pagenum: 96; title: Should The Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Ratio Be Large Or Small?
pagenum: 97; title: Cost-Minimisation Analysis
pagenum: 98; title: Cost-Effectiveness Planes
pagenum: 103; title: Sensitivity Analysis
pagenum: 104; title: A Final Note
pagenum: 110; title: Self-Directed Study Exercises
pagenum: 110; title: References
pagenum: 113; title: Further Reading
pagenum: 113; title: Further Published Examples Of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
pagenum: 113; label: 6
title: Cost-Utility Analysis
pagenum: 115; title: Introduction
pagenum: 115; title: Outcome Measures In Cost-Utility Analysis
pagenum: 115; title: Using Cost-Utility Analysis To Allocate Resources To Different Services
pagenum: 117; title: Using Cost-Utility Analysis To Choose Between Life-Saving And Life-Improving Interventions
pagenum: 120; title: The Effect Of Discounting Quality Adjusted Life Years In Cost-Utility Analysis
pagenum: 122; title: Making Decisions Using Cost-Utility Analysis
pagenum: 123; title: Self-Directed Study Exercises
pagenum: 125; title: References
pagenum: 126; title: Further Reading
pagenum: 127; title: Further Published Examples Of Cost-Utility Analysis
pagenum: 127; label: 7
title: Cost-Benefit Analysis
pagenum: 129; title: Introduction
pagenum: 129; title: Outcome Measures In Cost-Benefit Analysis
pagenum: 130; title: Using Cost-Benefit Analysis To Allocate Resources To Different Services
pagenum: 131; title: Making Decisions Using Cost-Benefit Analysis
pagenum: 134; title: Self-Directed Study Exercise
pagenum: 135; title: References
pagenum: 137; title: Further Reading
pagenum: 137; title: Further Published Examples Of Cost-Benefit Analysis
pagenum: 138; label: 8
title: Introduction To The Use Of Decision Analysis In Economic Evaluations
pagenum: 139; title: Introduction
pagenum: 139; title: What Are The Sources Of Uncertainty?
pagenum: 139; title: Probability: The Language Of Uncertainty
pagenum: 140; title: Use Of Decision Analysis To Design Economic Evaluations
pagenum: 145; title: Building An Economic Evaluation, Stage 1
pagenum: 146; title: Building An Economic Evaluation, Stage 2
pagenum: 151; title: Building An Economic Evaluation, Stage 3
pagenum: 153; title: Building An Economic Evaluation, Stage 4
pagenum: 155; title: Markov Modelling
pagenum: 163; title: Self-Directed Study Exercises
pagenum: 165; title: References
pagenum: 168; title: Further Reading
pagenum: 168; label: 9
title: Using Economic Evaluations To Inform Decision-Making In Healthcare
pagenum: 169; title: Introduction
pagenum: 169; title: How May Economic Evaluations Be Used?
pagenum: 169; title: How Have Economic Evaluations Been Used?
pagenum: 171; title: Assessing The Quality Of Economic Evaluations
pagenum: 172; title: Using Guidelines To Improve The Quality Of Economic Evaluations
pagenum: 172; title: Interpreting Economic Evaluations
pagenum: 180; title: Self-Directed Study Exercise
pagenum: 180; title: References
pagenum: 181; title: Further Reading
pagenum: 182; title: Sample List Of Guidelines For The Design And Conduct Of Economic Evaluations
pagenum: 182; label: 10
title: Statistical Handling Of Data In Economic Analysis
pagenum: 185; title: Introduction
pagenum: 185; title: Statistical Analysis Of Costs
pagenum: 185; title: Stochastic Economic Analysis
pagenum: 191; title: Self-Directed Study Exercises
pagenum: 199; title: References
pagenum: 200; title: Further Reading
pagenum: 201; title: Examples Of Economic Evaluations That Present Graphical Bootstrapped Incremental Cost-Effectiveness Ratios
pagenum: 201; title: Examples Of Economic Evaluations That Present Cost-Effectiveness Acceptability Curves
pagenum: 202; label: 11
title: Valuing Preferences
pagenum: 203; title: Introduction
pagenum: 203; title: Stated Preference Or Revealed Preference?
pagenum: 203; title: Discrete Choice Experiments
pagenum: 205; title: How Do You Do A Discrete Choice Experiment?
pagenum: 207; title: Self-Directed Study Exercise
pagenum: 214; title: References
pagenum: 216; title: Further Reading
pagenum: 217; label: 12
title: Useful Resources In Health Economics And Economic Evaluation
pagenum: 219; title: Further Key Texts In Health Economics
pagenum: 219; title: Special Interest Groups And Useful Contacts For Health Economists
pagenum: 220; title: Glossary
pagenum: 223; title: Index
pagenum: 229