Valuing Health Care: Costs, Benefits, and Effectiveness of Pharmaceuticals and Other Medical Technologies
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Editor: Frank A. SloanEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1996-08-28
ISBN: 0521576466
Number of pages: 287
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
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Book Review: A must read for those who want to understand the value of health
Summary: 5 Stars
The idea of how to value health care is a complex topic. Sloan basically has offered a seminal book on how to calculate health care and different ways to look at it. From Quality Adjusted Life Years (QALY's) to decision trees this book lays out the various ways to calculate health care. It is essential reading for health economists. Those going into the industry and wanting to learn how to price this book will tell you how to calculate and ways that you can make your business more efficient. Highly recommend.
Summary of Valuing Health Care: Costs, Benefits, and Effectiveness of Pharmaceuticals and Other Medical Technologies
This book is about the cost effectiveness of present and future medical technologies. Methods of analyzing cost effectiveness are described in terms of choices that take into consideration dollar values of treatment, quality of life and the rationale for deciding who should receive treatment in situations of rationed care. Essays in the book range from lay level to technical state of the art, making the book of interest to a wide variety of readers.General Books
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