TY  - BOOK
AU  - Brazier,John
AU  - Ratcliffe,Julie
AU  - Saloman,Joshua A.
AU  - Tsuchiya,Aki
AU  - Saloman,Joshua
TI  - Measuring and valuing health benefits for economic evaluation
SN  - 9780198725923 (paperback) :
AV  - R853.O87 M428 2017
U1  - 338.473621 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - Oxford
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Outcome assessment (Medical care)
KW  - Medical economics
KW  - Economics, Medical
KW  - Public Health
KW  - economics
KW  - Costs and Cost Analysis
KW  - Models, Econometric
KW  - Quality-Adjusted Life Years
N1  - Previous edition: 2007; Formerly CIP; Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction to the measurement and valuation of health -- Foundations in welfare economics and utility theory : what should be valued? -- Describing health -- Valuing health -- Modelling health state valuation data -- Using ordinal data to estimate cardinal valuations -- Methods for obtaining health state values : generic preference-based measures of health and the alternatives -- Design and analysis of health state valuation data for trial- and model-based economic evaluations -- A QALY is a QALY is a QALY, or is it not? -- Measuring and valuing health : an international perspective
N2  - With limited resources and funding, it is impossible to invest in all potentially beneficial health care interventions. Choices have to be made, and this guide allows the reader to measure and value the benefits of interventions, a key component of economic evaluation, which permits comparisons between interventions
ER  -