The growing use of cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) to evaluate specific interventions is dominated by studies of prospective new interventions compared with current practice. This type of analysis does not explicitly take a sectoral perspective in which the costs and effectiveness of all possible
Editorial: Some reflections on cost-effectiveness analysis
โ Scribed by Magnus Johannesson; David Meltzer
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 53 KB
- Volume
- 7
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1057-9230
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