Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health: A Practical Approach, 3rd Edition

The Bestselling Reference, Updated with the Latest Tools, Data, and Techniques

Now in its third edition, the revised and updated Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health: A Practical Approach offers a comprehensive resource for evaluating the interventions and programs that are designed to improve health. Step by step, the authors reveal how to conduct practical cost-effectiveness analyses that has worldwide applications. Without relying on abstract theory or complicated models, Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health shows how to work with the fundamentals. The authors offer the information needed to develop a research question, find and evaluate data, build a decision model, stress-test the model, interpret the results, and summarize the findings in a report using the most up-to-date techniques and software.

The text's illustrative exercises provide a guide through the process of obtaining electronic data, analyzing the medical literature, building a decision analysis tree, and conducting a sensitivity analysis.

Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health includes:

• The principles of cost-effectiveness analysis
• The eight steps to a perfect research project
• Tools for evaluating the interventions and programs meant to improve health
• A review of probabilities and decision analysis models
• A basic introduction to biostatistics and epidemiology
• Information for preparing your study for publication

The revised edition of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis in Health gives students a basic understanding of and the tools needed to conduct cost-effectiveness analysis.