Toward a Broader View of Values in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis of Health

By registering different health benefits on a common scale, CEA allows us to assess the relative social importance of different health care interventions and opens the way for the allocation decisions of health care policy. If it is really to be effective, however, CEA must be recalibrated so that i...

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Authors: Menzel, Paul (Author) ; Gold, Marthe R. (Author) ; Nord, Erik (Author) ; Pinto-Prades, Jose-Louis (Author) ; Richardson, Jeff (Author) ; Ubel, Peter (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: 1999
In: The Hastings Center report
Year: 1999, Volume: 29, Issue: 3, Pages: 7-15
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Summary:By registering different health benefits on a common scale, CEA allows us to assess the relative social importance of different health care interventions and opens the way for the allocation decisions of health care policy. If it is really to be effective, however, CEA must be recalibrated so that it better reflects some of our widely held beliefs about the merits of different kinds of treatment.
ISSN:1552-146X
Contains:Enthalten in: Hastings Center, The Hastings Center report
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.2307/3528187