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• Title:Methods for the economic evaluation of health care programmes / Michael F. Drummond, Professor, Centre for Health Economics, University of York, UK, [and 4 others].
  
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• Author/Creator:Drummond, Michael, author.
  
• Published/Created:Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Oxford University Press, 2015.
  

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  • Call Number: W74.1 .D795m 2015
    
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• Library of Congress Subjects:Medical care--Cost effectiveness.
  Medical care, Cost of--Evaluation.
  
• Medical Subjects: Costs and Cost Analysis.
  Delivery of Health Care--economics.
  Evaluation Studies as Topic.
  
• Edition:Fourth edition.
  
• Description:xiii, 445 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
  
• Series:Oxford medical publications.
  
• Summary:This highly successful textbook is now in its fourth edition, and has been extensively updated in order to keep pace with the considerable advances in theory and practice in recent years.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780199665884 (hardback)
  0199665877 (hardback)
  9780199665877 (hardback)
  0199665885 (paperback)
  
• Contents:Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction to economic evaluation
  1.1. Some basics
  1.2. Why is economic evaluation important?
  1.3. features of economic evaluation
  1.4. Do all economic evaluations use the same techniques?
  1.5. Use of economic evaluation in health care decision-making
  1.6. How to use this book
  2. Making decisions in health care
  2.1. Some basics
  2.2. Informing health care choices
  2.3. Requirements for economic evaluation
  2.4. What is the purpose of health care interventions?
  2.5. Concluding remarks
  3. Critical assessment of economic evaluation
  3.1. Some basics
  3.2. Elements of a sound economic evaluation
  3.3. Reporting guidelines for economic evaluation
  3.4. Limitations of economic evaluation techniques
  3.5. Conclusions
  3.6. Critical appraisal of published articles
  4. Principles of economic evaluation
  4.1. Alternatives, costs, and benefits: some basics
  4.2. Making decisions about health care
  4.3. cost-effectiveness threshold
  4.4. Making decisions with multiple alternatives
  4.5. Some methodological implications
  4.6. Concluding remarks
  5. Measuring and valuing effects: health gain
  5.1. Some basics
  5.2. Using health effects in economic evaluation
  5.3. Measuring preferences for health states
  5.4. Methods for measuring preferences
  5.5. Multi-attribute health status classification systems with preference scores
  5.6. Mapping between non-preference-based measures of health and generic preference-based measures
  5.7. Whose values should be used to value health states?
  5.8. Criticisms of QALYs
  5.9. Further reading
  6. Measuring and valuing effects: consumption benefits of health care
  6.1. Some basics
  6.2. Assigning money values to the outcomes of health care programmes
  6.3. What might we mean by willingness to pay (WTP)?
  6.4. Pragmatic measurement issues in willingness to pay (WTP)
  6.5. Exercise: designing a willingness-to-pay (WTP) survey for a new treatment for ovarian cancer
  6.6. Other stated preference approaches: discrete choice experiments (DCEs)
  6.7. Valuation of health effects for health policy decisions
  6.8. Further reading
  7. Cost analysis
  7.1. Some basics
  7.2. Allowance for differential timing of costs (discounting and the annuitization of capital expenditures)
  7.3. Productivity changes
  7.4. Exercise: costing alternative radiotherapy treatments
  7.5. Concluding remarks
  Annex 7.1 Tutorial on methods of measuring and valuing capital costs
  Annex 7.2 Discount tables
  8. Using clinical studies as vehicles for economic evaluation
  8.1. Introduction to vehicles for economic evaluation
  8.2. Alternative vehicles for economic evaluation
  8.3. Analytical issues with individual patient data
  8.4. Conclusions
  8.5. Exercise
  9. Economic evaluation using decision-analytic modelling
  9.1. Some basics
  9.2. role of decision-analytic models for economic evaluation
  9.3. Key elements of decision-analytic modelling
  9.4. Stages in the development of a decision-analytic model
  9.5. Critical appraisal of decision-analytic models
  9.6. Conclusions
  9.7. Exercise: developing a decision-analytic model
  Annex 9.1 Checklist for assessing quality in decision-analytic models
  10. Identifying, synthesizing, and analysing evidence for economic evaluation
  10.1. Introduction to evidence in economic evaluation
  10.2. Defining relevant evidence
  10.3. Identifying and reviewing evidence
  10.4. Synthesizing evidence
  10.5. Estimating other parameters for economic evaluation
  10.6. Conclusions
  10.7. Exercise
  11. Characterizing, reporting, and interpreting uncertainty
  11.1. Some basics
  11.2. Characterizing uncertainty
  11.3. Is current evidence sufficient?
  11.4. Implications for approval and research decisions
  11.5. Uncertainty, heterogeneity, and individualized care
  11.6. Concluding remarks
  12. How to take matters further
  12.1. Taking matters further
  12.2. Further reading and key sources of literature
  12.3. Planning and undertaking an economic evaluation
  12.4. Expanding your network in economic evaluation
  12.5. Looking to the future.