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Economic evaluation [electronic resource] / Julia Fox-Rushby and John Cairns (editors).

Fox-Rushby, Julia A. (Added Author). Cairns, John. (Added Author).

Summary:

There are so many ways in which health might be improved today and, as technology improves, the opportunities will increase. However, there are limits to budgets as well as other resources so choices have to be made about what to spend money and time on. Economic evaluation can help set out the value of the costs and benefits from competing choices.

Record details

ISBN: 9780335225064
ISBN: 0335225063
Physical Description: 1 online resource (viii, 253 pages) : illustrations.
Publisher: Maidenhead ; Open University Press, 2005.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:	section 1. The structure of economic evaluation -- section 2. Measuring and valuing resource use -- section 3. Measuring and valuing consequences -- section 4. Presenting and interpreting the evidence -- section 5. Appraising the quality and usefulness of economic evaluation.
Source of Description Note:	Print version record.