Methods for the economic evaluation of health care programmes. - Drummond, Michael; Sculpher, Mark J.; Claxton, Karl; Stoddart, G. L.; Torrance, George W.; Askews & Holts Library Services (Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015)
Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction to economic evaluation -- 1.1. Some basics -- 1.2. Why is economic evaluation important? -- 1.3. The features of economic evaluation -- 1.4. Do all economic evaluations use the same techniques? -- 1.5. Use of economic evaluation in health care decision-making -- 1.6. How to use this book -- 2. Making decisions in health care -- 2.1. Some basics -- 2.2. Informing health care choices -- 2.3. Requirements for economic evaluation -- 2.4. What is the purpose of health care interventions? -- 2.5. Concluding remarks -- 3. Critical assessment of economic evaluation -- 3.1. Some basics -- 3.2. Elements of a sound economic evaluation -- 3.3. Reporting guidelines for economic evaluation -- 3.4. Limitations of economic evaluation techniques -- 3.5. Conclusions -- 3.6. Critical appraisal of published articles -- 4. Principles of economic evaluation -- 4.1. Alternatives, costs, and benefits: some basics -- 4.2. Making decisions about health care -- 4.3. The cost-effectiveness threshold -- 4.4. Making decisions with multiple alternatives -- 4.5. Some methodological implications -- 4.6. Concluding remarks -- 5. Measuring and valuing effects: health gain -- 5.1. Some basics -- 5.2. Using health effects in economic evaluation -- 5.3. Measuring preferences for health states -- 5.4. Methods for measuring preferences -- 5.5. Multi-attribute health status classification systems with preference scores -- 5.6. Mapping between non-preference-based measures of health and generic preference-based measures -- 5.7. Whose values should be used to value health states? -- 5.8. Criticisms of QALYs -- 5.9. Further reading -- 6. Measuring and valuing effects: consumption benefits of health care -- 6.1. Some basics -- 6.2. Assigning money values to the outcomes of health care programmes -- 6.3. What might we mean by willingness to pay (WTP)? -- 6.4. Pragmatic measurement issues in willingness to pay (WTP) -- 6.5. Exercise: designing a willingness-to-
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Keywords: Medical care -- Cost effectiveness; Medical economics; Medical care, Cost of -- Evluation; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / General; Medical care -- Cost effectiveness; Medical care, Cost of -- Evaluation; Gesundheitsförderung; Gesundheitswesen; Kosten-Nutzen-Analyse; Kosten-Wirksamkeits-Analyse; Wirtschaftlichkeit; Costs and Cost Analysis; Delivery of Health Care -- economics; Evaluation Studies as Topic; elektronické knihy; electronic books