Cost-Value Analysis in Health Care: Making Sense out of QALYS

by Erik Nord

Overview

This book is a comprehensive and fully up-to-date account of what it means to try to quantify health in distributing resources for health care. It offers an elegant new approach to comparing the costs and benefits of medical interventions. Erik Nord questions Cost-Utility Analysis (CUA) and the feasibility of measuring patients' quality of life meaningfully in numerical terms. He presents an alternative approach called cost-value analysis in which representative samples of the general public express preferences among different health-care programs. This will be a book of particular interest to medical ethicists, health-care professionals and administrators, and economists specializing in health-care economics.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521644341
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	09/28/1999
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Philosophy and Public Policy
Edition description:	Older Edition
Pages:	182
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.43(d)

Table of Contents

Preface; Reader's guide; Summary; 1. Maximizing value in health care; 2. Three basic issues in economic evaluation; 3. The QALY approach; 4. Concerns for fairness; 5. The limitations of utility measurement; 6. Ways to go; Annex.

Editorial Reviews

"This is a well-written and readable book..." Health Economics

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