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The Stupidity of the Cost‐Benefit Standard
The Journal of Legal Studies, 2000Abstract The ends settled on by legislatures being often too vague and abstract to provide sufficient guidance for a noncontroversial form of instrumental reasoning to take over, the natural next move for the instrumentalist is to suggest collecting additional information about individuals’ ends in order to help agencies make ...
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Cost–benefits of vaccination programmes
Vaccine, 2000Decision-makers are increasingly demanding hard economic data as a basis for the allocation of limited healthcare resources. The main types of evaluation that are available are cost-benefit analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis and cost-utility analysis.
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Cost Benefit of Sumatriptan to an Employer
Journal of Occupational & Environmental Medicine, 1997Benefit and occupational health managers need information on whether new treatments, such as sumatriptan, for migraine headache improve organizational or individual performance. A work productivity outcomes assessment was conducted among sumatriptan-using employees of an Independent Practice Association-health maintenance organization population.
R F, Legg +4 more
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Cost-Benefit Analysis of the RFA
Science, 2006The U.S. National Institutes of Health issues requests for applications (RFA) to solicit proposals on a specific topic. While a well-designed RFA can have significant benefit to the scientific enterprise and support the mission of the Institute, a poorly designed RFA can produce a significant ...
Norman J, Dovichi, Steven A, Soper
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ISOTRETINOIN: COST‐BENEFIT STUDY
Australasian Journal of Dermatology, 1991SummaryIsotretinoin is a well‐established, effective treatment for severe nodutocystic acne. An important consideration which may limit the prescription of isotretinoin is its cost. Based on a literature review, we have compared isotretinoin with the conventional combination of antibiotics and topical therapies for the treatment of severe nodulocystic ...
M L, Lee, A, Cooper
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Cost-Benefit Analysis and the Environment
Ethics, 2004This review-essay explores the uses and limits of cost-benefit analysis in the context of environmental protection, focusing on three recent books: Priceless, by Frank Ackerman and Lisa Heinzerling; Cellular Phones, Public Fears, and A Culture of Precaution, by Adam Burgess; and Catastrophe: Risk and Response, by Richard A. Posner.
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On the Nature of the Cost-Benefit Schedule
Management Science, 1971In this paper the nature of a set of coat-benefit studied alternatives is studied. An integrated set of submodels is assumed to provide the foundation for a cost-benefit schedule. The model is formulated as an efficiency problem using the technique of vector maximization. Efficient points are characterized by a set of decision rules.
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Cost/ Benefit Aspects on Thromboprophylaxis
Haemostasis, 2009Several studies have shown thromboprophylaxis of any kind to be more cost-effective than no prophylaxis or general diagnostic surveillance and selective treatment. Little has been written on low molecular weight heparins from the cost-effectiveness point of view.
D, Bergqvist, T, Mätzsch
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On Justifying Cost‐Benefit Analysis
The Journal of Legal Studies, 2000Abstract This essay considers two problems in the justification of cost‐benefit analysis. First, it argues that because cost‐benefit analysis values policies, variation in imputed “values of life” are not, in theory, cause for concern. Second, it argues that the current framework of justification, which focuses on the moral justification of the formal ...
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Educational Cost-benefit Analysis
Education Economics, 1994This publication is one of a series of Education Papers issued from time to time by the Education Division of the Department for International Development. Each paper represents a study or commissioned research on some aspect of education and training in developing countries.
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