Valuing Health Care
Subtitle: Costs, Benefits, and Effectiveness of Pharmaceuticals and Other Medical Technologies
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: August 28, 1996
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 287
ISBN-13: 9780521576468
Subjects: Industry & Industrial Studies; Microeconomics; Economics - General; Business & Economics; Business / Economics / Finance; Business/Economics; Economics - Microeconomics; Industries - General; Business & Economics / Economics / General; Business & Economics / Microeconomics; Business & Economics-Economics - Microeconomics; Business & Economics-Industries - General; Medical care, cost of; Medical sciences
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.