TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nord,Erik
TI  - Cost-value analysis in health care: making sense out of QALYs 
T2  - Cambridge studies in philosophy and public policy
SN  - 9780511609145 (ebook)
AV  - RA410.5 .N67 1999
U1  - 362.1 21
PY  - 1999///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Health care rationing
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Cost effectiveness
KW  - Mathematical models
KW  - Quality of life
KW  - Life expectancy
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
N2  - This book is a comprehensive account of what it means to try to quantify health in distributing resources for health care. It examines the concept of QALYs (Quality Adjusted Life Year) which supposedly makes it more accurate to talk about life in terms of both quality and quantity of years lived when referring to health care policy. It offers an elegant new approach to comparing the costs and benefits of medical interventions. Cost-Utility Analysis (CUA) is a method designed by economists to aid decision makers distribute scarce resources to areas of health care where they will yield the greatest benefits. Erik Nord questions the feasibility of measuring patients' quality of life meaningfully in numerical terms, as CUA presupposes. He presents an alternative approach called cost-value analysis in which representative samples of the general public express preferences between different health-care programs. In this approach, subjects are allowed to include concerns for fairness that go beyond concerns for efficiency of conventional health economics
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511609145
ER  -