1st Edition
Evidence-Based and Cost-Effective Medicine for the Uninitiated
By David B. Cooper
Copyright 1997
102 Pages
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CRC Press
93 Pages
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CRC Press
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Part I: Introduction 1. The levers of decision-making in medical practice Part II: Evidence-based Medicine 2. Evidence-based medicine 3. The history of evidence-based medicine 4. The practicalities of evidence-based medicine 5. The effects of evidence-based medicine 6. Ethics, philosophy and evidence-based medicine 7. Concerns about evidence-based medicine Part III: Cost-effectiveness in Medicine 8. Cost-effectiveness in medical decision-making an introduction to cost-effectiveness based medical decision-making (CEM) 9. The process of cost-effectiveness analysis in medical decision-making 10. The effects of cost-effectiveness based medical decision-making 11. Concerns about CEM and its future development Concerns about CEM Part IV: Conclusion 12. So what matters, cost or benefit?
Biography
David B. Cooper
