Methods for the economic evaluation of health care programmes /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Drummond, Michael, author.
Edition:	Fourth edition.
Imprint:	Oxford, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Description:	xiii, 445 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Oxford medical publications Oxford medical publications.
Subject:	Medical care -- Cost effectiveness. Medical care, Cost of -- Evaluation. Medical care -- Cost effectiveness. Medical care, Cost of -- Evaluation. Costs and Cost Analysis Delivery of Health Care -- economics Evaluation Studies as Topic
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10947141

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ISBN:	9780199665884 0199665877 9780199665877 0199665885
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

List of abbreviations
1. Introduction to economic evaluation
1.1. Some basics
1.2. Why is economic evaluation important?
1.3. The 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. The 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
1.1. Allowance for differentia] timing of costs (discounting and the annuitization of capital expenditures)
7.1. Productivity changes
7.2. Exercise: costing alternative radiotherapy treatments
7.3. 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. The 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
97. 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?
114. 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
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Methods for the economic evaluation of health care programmes /

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