Abstract

Abstract: In a climate of economic uncertainty, cost effectiveness analysis is a potentially important tool for making choices about health care interventions. Methods for such analyses are well established, but the results need to be interpreted carefully and are subject to bias. Making decisions based on results of cost-effectiveness analyses can involve setting thresholds, but for individual patients, there needs to be disaggregation of benefits and harms included in a quality adjusted life year to ensure appropriate consideration of benefits and harms as well as personal preferences and circumstances.

Details

Title
Cost-effectiveness analysis for clinicians
Author
Hill, Suzanne R
Pages
10
Publication year
2012
Publication date
2012
Publisher
BioMed Central
e-ISSN
17417015
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
923756723
Copyright
© 2012 Hill; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.