Valuing health care : costs, benefits, and effectiveness of pharmaceuticals and other medical technologies

Author(s)

• Sloan, Frank A.

Bibliographic Information

Valuing health care : costs, benefits, and effectiveness of pharmaceuticals and other medical technologies

edited by Frank A. Sloan

Cambridge University Press, 1995

Note

Includes bibliographical references

Description and Table of Contents

Description

As expenditure on health care has increasingly become an area of public debate and concern, public and private health care decision-makers have called for more rigorous use of cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis to guide spending. Concerns have arisen, however, about the overall quality of such analyses. This book discusses and evaluates best-practice methods of conducting cost-benefit and cost-effectiveness studies of pharmaceuticals and other medical technologies. It encompasses a wide variety of topics, ranging from measuring cost and effectiveness to discounting to the use of dynamic modelling of cost-effectiveness. The book also includes conceptual and practical aspects of cost-effectiveness analysis by researchers who have conducted applied research in these areas. Rarely does the book provide a singular solution to a measurement problem; rather, the reader is directed to choices among alternative approaches and an analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of each.

Table of Contents

• 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. Alternative methods of allocating health resources under constraints Frank A. Sloan and Christopher J. Conover.

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BA24374450
• ISBN:
  • 052147020X
• LCCN: 94009554
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Cambridge ; New York
• Pages/Volumes: xi, 273 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : RA410.5
  • NLM : W 74 V215 1994
  • DC20 : 338.4/33621
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Medical care -- Cost effectiveness -- Research -- Methodology
  • LCSH : Drugs -- Cost effectiveness -- Research -- Methodology
  • MESH : Cost-Benefit Analysis -- methods
  • MESH : Health Services -- United States
  • MESH : Evaluation Studies
  • LCSH : Outcome and Process Assessment (Health Care) -- economics -- United States
  • MESH : Economics, Pharmaceutical -- United States