The Implications of cost-effectiveness analysis of medical technology
Subtitle: [background papers].
Contributors: United States. Congress. Office of Technology Assessment.
Series: OTA background papers -- H-5 , H-9(1), H-9(17), H-14; OTA background papers -- H9; OTA background papers -- H14
Publisher: Congress of the United States, Office of Technology Assessment.
Published: 1980
Place of publication: Washington
Language: eng
Subjects: Medical care -- Cost effectiveness.; Medical innovations -- Cost effectiveness.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: value: 1. Methodological issues and literature review.; value: 2. Case studies of medical technologies: Case study no. 1: Formal analysis, policy formulation, and end-stage renal disease; Case study no. 17: Surgery for breast cancer.; value: 3. The efficacy and cost effectiveness of psychotherapy; value: 4. The management of health care technology in ten countries.; value: 5. Four common X-Ray procedures: problems and proespects for economic evaluation.