Designing and conducting cost-effectiveness analyses in medicine and health care /
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| Author / Creator: | Muennig, Peter. |
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Imprint: | San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2002. |
| Description: | xxvi, 356 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4663821 |
Table of Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- List of Tables, Figures, and Exhibits
- Tables
- Figures
- Exhibits
- Preface
- How to Use this Book
- A Note on Methods
- 1. Introduction to Cost-Effectiveness
- What Is Cost-Effectiveness Analysis?
- Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and Policy
- Principles of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
- Other Types of Analyses
- 2. Developing a Research Project
- The Ten Steps to a Perfect Research Project
- Developing a Research Question
- Designing Your Analysis
- 3. Working with Data
- Overview
- Review of Rates
- Understanding Error
- Calculating Weighted Means
- Evaluating Study Limitations
- 4. Finding the Data You Need
- Overview
- Finding Information in the Medical Literature
- Using Electronic Datasets
- Using Data from Unpublished Research Projects
- Using Data from Piggybacked Studies
- Using Expert Opinion
- Organizing Your Data
- 5. Working with Probabilities
- Overview
- Incidence and Prevalence
- Secondary Transmission of Infectious Disease
- Duration of Illness
- Efficacy and Measures of Risk
- Laboratory Test Data
- Distribution of Disease
- Secondary Complications of Illness
- Medical Care Utilization
- Side Effects
- Health-Related Quality of Life Scores
- Mortality Data
- 6. Working with Costs
- Overview
- Measuring Changes in Costs
- Using Diagnosis Codes
- Future Medical Costs
- Adjusting Costs
- Assessing the "Relevancy" of Cost Data
- Determining Which Costs to Include
- 7. Constructing a Model
- Introduction to Decision Analysis
- Building the Influenza Model
- 8. Working with Quality of Life Measures
- Overview
- Framework
- Who Should Valuate HRQL?
- Deriving HRQL Scores
- Things to Consider Regarding HRQL Scores
- 9. Calculating Quality-Adjusted Life Years
- Overview
- Calculating QALYs in the Sample Analysis
- 10. Conducting a Sensitivity Analysis
- Overview
- One-Way Sensitivity Analysis
- Two-Way Sensitivity Analysis
- Analysis of Influence
- Monte Carlo Simulation
- 11. Preparing Your Study for Publication
- Overview
- Content and Structure of Cost-Effectiveness Articles
- Publishing Your Research
- 12. Advanced Concepts
- Overview
- Working with Measures of Risk
- Generating Life Tables
- Using Markov Models
- Appendix 1. Solutions to Exercises
- Appendix 2. Journal Summaries
- Appendix 3. Census Tables
- Appendix 4. HRQL Scores Derived from the Years of Healthy Life Measure
- Appendix 5. Life Tables and Quality-Adjusted Life Tables
- Appendix 6. The EuroQol Instrument
- References
- The Author
- Index
