Cost-effectiveness Analyses in Health by Muennig

Cost-effectiveness Analyses in Health by Muennig

This second edition of Cost Effectiveness Analysis in Health reviews issues and methods of assessing health care technologies and related programs. It emphasizes methods to perform economic evaluations, such as cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit analysis; methods to assess efficacy, effectiveness, and safety of health care technologies; effectiveness research; and applications to clinical and public policy. The book provides in-depth discussion of the uses and conducting of cost-effectiveness analyses (CEAs) as decision-making aids in public health, health services, and medicine. It explores cost-effectiveness in the context of societal decision making for resource allocation purposes. Chapter topics include: Defining and explaining cost-effectiveness, principles of cost-effectiveness analysis, how to develop a research project, working with costs, probabilities and models, calculating life expectancy, working with health-related quality of life measures, calculating quality-adjusted life years, conducting a sensitivity analysis, preparing your study for publication, working with data, and finding the data you need. "For instructors, data sets and other ancillary materials are freely available at http://www.pceo.org/."

Few authors share DrMuennig's gift for reducing a complex topic to a series of practical steps that mere mortals can easily follow. This instruction manual for cost-effectiveness research, as the author accurately describes it, provides numerous tips and real-world examples. The book is essential reading for anyone designing a pharmacoeconomic or comparative-effectiveness clinical study. (Journal of Clinical Research Best Practices, November 2010)

Peter Muennig is an assistant professor at Columbia University. Previously, he directed the Program in Cost-Effectiveness and Outcomes at New School University, consulted for Health Canada and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and was an assistant professor at the Sophie Davis School of Biomedical Education.

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ISBN 13	9780787995560
ISBN 10	0787995568
Title	Cost-effectiveness Analyses in Health
Author	Muennig
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	John Wiley & Sons Inc
Year published	2007-11-01
Number of pages	288
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