1. Introduction / Frank A. Sloan -- 2. Evidence of effectiveness: evaluating its quality / Allan S. Detsky -- 3. Utility assessment for estimating quality-adjusted life years / Robert M. Kaplan -- 4. Measuring costs / David Dranove -- 5. From cost-effectiveness ratios to resource allocation: where to draw the line? / Milton C. Weinstein -- 6. Valuing health care benefits in money terms / Mark V. Pauly -- 7. Discounting health effects for medical decisions / W. Kip Viscusi -- 8. Statistical issues in cost-effectiveness analyses / John Mullahy and Willard Manning -- 9. Decision trees and Markov models in cost-effectiveness research / Emmett Keeler -- 10. The use of cost-effectiveness/cost-benefit analysis in actual decision making: current status and prospects / Frank A. Sloan and Christopher J. Conover
Summary
Papers describing the state of the art in cost benefit and cost effectiveness analysis
Analysis
Health services Economics
United States
Health services Economics
United States
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-267) and index