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020 _a9780511609145 (ebook)
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050 0 0 _aRA410.5
_b.N67 1999
082 0 0 _a362.1
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100 1 _aNord, Erik,
_d1948-
_eauthor.
245 1 0 _aCost-value analysis in health care :
_bmaking sense out of QALYs /
_cErik Nord.
264 1 _aCambridge :
_bCambridge University Press,
_c1999.
300 _a1 online resource (xxiii, 157 pages) :
_bdigital, PDF file(s).
336 _atext
_btxt
_2rdacontent
337 _acomputer
_bc
_2rdamedia
338 _aonline resource
_bcr
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aCambridge studies in philosophy and public policy
500 _aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
520 _aThis 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.
650 0 _aHealth care rationing.
650 0 _aMedical care
_xCost effectiveness
_xMathematical models.
650 0 _aQuality of life.
650 0 _aLife expectancy.
776 0 8 _iPrint version:
_z9780521643085
830 0 _aCambridge studies in philosophy and public policy.
856 4 0 _uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511609145
999 _c517031
_d517029