Estimating the costs of medicalization
β Scribed by Peter Conrad; Thomas Mackie; Ateev Mehrotra
- Book ID
- 113908626
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 2010
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 136 KB
- Volume
- 70
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0277-9536
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A source of controversy in the economic literature concerns whether to include or exclude future medical care costs when computing attributable costs for lifesaving interventions. Although it is hypothesized that including future medical care costs will offset the cost savings achieved through preve