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Cost, Effectiveness, and Cost-Effectiveness [PDF]
Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and Outcomes, 2009 Pluck the goose so as to obtain the most feathers with the least hissing . — —Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Minister of Finance to King Louis XIV of France Incremental or marginal cost-effectiveness ratios are founded on a number of assumptions that weaken their suitability as a way to balance competing economic and clinical priorities. We therefore propose
Sanjay Kaul, George A. Diamond
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Revista Ciencias de la Salud, 2005 Online education offers strong intrinsic potential for advancing and augmenting teaching and learning through broadening and deepening access. Proponents of online education further claim extrinsic potential – that it should be less costly and just as effective as traditional education, if not more so.
Rafael Riveros
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The probability of cost-effectiveness [PDF]
BMC Medical Research Methodology, 2002 The study of cost-effectiveness comparisons between competing medical interventions has led to a variety of proposals for quantifying cost-effectiveness. The differences between the various approaches can be subtle, and one purpose of this article is to clarify some important distinctions.We discuss alternative measures in the framework of individual ...
John Stevens, Anthony O'Hagan
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Understanding cost-effectiveness [PDF]
Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 2010 Healthcare delivery in the USA and abroad has changed dramatically over the last several decades. Along with the growth in diagnostic and therapeutic interventions, the costs of healthcare have escalated out of proportion relative to other aspects of the economy.
Marya D. Zilberberg +2 more
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Promoting cost effective prescribing [PDF]
BMJ, 1995 EDITOR,--Nick Freemantle and colleagues criticise the NHS for lagging behind Australia and Canada in promoting cost effective prescribing.1 As members of the working group that agreed the British guidance on conducting economic evaluations2 we take issue with their claim that these countries have a preferable approach.
Adrian Towse, Nicholas Wells
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Cost-Effectiveness Analysis [PDF]
Journal of Nuclear Medicine, 2009 Before any attempt to address the issues implied in the article by Mohan and Miles ( [1][1] ) in this issue of The Journal of Nuclear Medicine , a brief and deliberately simplistic review of methodologic basics may facilitate understanding by nonexpert readers of that article ( [1][1] ). Cost-
Kenneth J. Smith, Mark S. Roberts
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Costs, effects and cost‐effectiveness of breast cancer control in Ghana [PDF]
Tropical Medicine & International Health, 2012 AbstractObjective Breast cancer control in Ghana is characterised by low awareness, late‐stage treatment and poor survival. In settings with severely constrained health resources, there is a need to spend money wisely. To achieve this and to guide policy makers in their selection of interventions, this study systematically compares costs and effects ...
Laurens M. Niëns +9 more
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Cost-Effectiveness Thresholds in Global Health: Taking a Multisectoral Perspective. [PDF]
, 2017 Good health is a function of a range of biological, environmental, behavioral, and social factors. The consumption of quality health care services is therefore only a part of how good health is produced.
Martinez-Alvarez, Melisa +2 more
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Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 2013 Objective: To estimate the potential impact on cardiovascular health of modifying dietary intake of saturated fat across the New Zealand population, and whether this would be appropriate and feasible.
Rachel H. Foster, Nick Wilson
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Open Heart, 2019 Objective To assess the potential impact of reduction in salt intake on the burden of cardiovascular disease (CVD) and premature mortality in Cameroon.Methods Using a multicohort proportional multistate life table model with Markov process, we modelled ...
J Lennert Veerman +2 more
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