A ROLE OF INITIAL CONDITIONS CHOICE ON THE RESULTS OBTAINED USING DIFFERENT PERTURBATION METHODS

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The impact of using different costing methods on the results of an economic evaluation of cardiac care: microcosting vs gross-costing approaches

✍ Fiona M. Clement (Nee Shrive); William A. Ghali; Cam Donaldson; Braden J. Manns 📂 Article 📅 2009 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 267 KB 👁 2 views

## Abstract __Background__: Published guidelines on the conduct of economic evaluations provide little guidance regarding the use and potential bias of the different costing methods. __Objectives__: Using microcosting and two gross‐costing methods, we (1) compared the cost estimates within and acr