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Author : D. P. Doessel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Diagnosis
ISBN : 0725905441
Author : D. P. Doessel
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1856282740
An economic analysis of medical diagnosis which considers the effect of the introduction of a new medical diagnostic technology. The text also uses the distinction between product and processes innovations, and it is argued that process innovations are, of their very nature, substitutes.
Author : Stephen Morris,Nancy Devlin,David Parkin,Anne Spencer
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 402 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2012-05-07
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781119951490
Economic Analysis in Health Care, Second Edition is intended as a core textbook for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of health economics. The authors provide comprehensive coverage of the field of economics in health care and the evaluation of health care technologies. This new edition has been fully updated with up-to-date case studies from the UK, Europe and the Rest of the World. It includes a new chapter on health care labour markets and contains new material integrated throughout the text on the economics of public health. Adopts an international perspective towards topics in health economics Creates a useful balance of theoretical treatment and practical application throughout the book Focuses on both market-related and economic evaluation aspects of health economics.
Author : Stephen Morris,Nancy Devlin,David Parkin
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780470016855
Health economics is concerned with the evaluation of the effectiveness of health care, particularly by examining the social opportunity costs of alternative forms of treatment. The peculiar nature of the market for health care – that doctors have a major influence on both supply and demand -.has attracted attention, as has the study of the options available for financing such services. Economic Analysis in Health Care provides a comprehensive coverage of both the economics of health care systems and the evaluation of health care technologies. It has been written as a core textbook for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students with knowledge of economic analysis and will appeal to an international audience. Adopts an international perspective, using examples and case studies from the UK, the rest of Europe, and other countries. Contains detailed exposition of the economic theory alongside relevant examples and applications Focuses on both market-related and economic evaluation aspects of health economics (some books focus purely on market-related aspects) Strong author team with very broad experience of writing and teaching health economics
Author : Francis Yin Yee Lau,Craig Kuziemsky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 487 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11
Category : Medical care
ISBN : 1550586017
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Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine,Institute of Medicine,Board on Health Care Services,Committee on Diagnostic Error in Health Care
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 473 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-29
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309377720
Getting the right diagnosis is a key aspect of health care - it provides an explanation of a patient's health problem and informs subsequent health care decisions. The diagnostic process is a complex, collaborative activity that involves clinical reasoning and information gathering to determine a patient's health problem. According to Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, diagnostic errors-inaccurate or delayed diagnoses-persist throughout all settings of care and continue to harm an unacceptable number of patients. It is likely that most people will experience at least one diagnostic error in their lifetime, sometimes with devastating consequences. Diagnostic errors may cause harm to patients by preventing or delaying appropriate treatment, providing unnecessary or harmful treatment, or resulting in psychological or financial repercussions. The committee concluded that improving the diagnostic process is not only possible, but also represents a moral, professional, and public health imperative. Improving Diagnosis in Health Care, a continuation of the landmark Institute of Medicine reports To Err Is Human (2000) and Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001), finds that diagnosis-and, in particular, the occurrence of diagnostic errorsâ€"has been largely unappreciated in efforts to improve the quality and safety of health care. Without a dedicated focus on improving diagnosis, diagnostic errors will likely worsen as the delivery of health care and the diagnostic process continue to increase in complexity. Just as the diagnostic process is a collaborative activity, improving diagnosis will require collaboration and a widespread commitment to change among health care professionals, health care organizations, patients and their families, researchers, and policy makers. The recommendations of Improving Diagnosis in Health Care contribute to the growing momentum for change in this crucial area of health care quality and safety.
Author : Jonathan Cylus,Irene Papanicolas,Peter C. Smith
Publisher : Health Policy
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9289050411
In this book the authors explore the state of the art on efficiency measurement in health systems and international experts offer insights into the pitfalls and potential associated with various measurement techniques. The authors show that: - The core idea of efficiency is easy to understand in principle - maximizing valued outputs relative to inputs, but is often difficult to make operational in real-life situations - There have been numerous advances in data collection and availability, as well as innovative methodological approaches that give valuable insights into how efficiently health care is delivered - Our simple analytical framework can facilitate the development and interpretation of efficiency indicators.
Author : Rashi Fein,Brookings Institution
Publisher : Washington : Brookings Institution
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Medical
ISBN : UOM:39015003220053
Assessment of the labour shortage of physicians in the USA - gives estimates, causes and criteria, and covers future labour demand, the impact of population dynamics and economic and social changes thereon, current supply and trends, labour productivity, group work in health services, etc. Statistical tables and references.
Author : Andrew Briggs,Mark Sculpher,Karl Claxton
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2006-08-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780191004957
In financially constrained health systems across the world, increasing emphasis is being placed on the ability to demonstrate that health care interventions are not only effective, but also cost-effective. This book deals with decision modelling techniques that can be used to estimate the value for money of various interventions including medical devices, surgical procedures, diagnostic technologies, and pharmaceuticals. Particular emphasis is placed on the importance of the appropriate representation of uncertainty in the evaluative process and the implication this uncertainty has for decision making and the need for future research. This highly practical guide takes the reader through the key principles and approaches of modelling techniques. It begins with the basics of constructing different forms of the model, the population of the model with input parameter estimates, analysis of the results, and progression to the holistic view of models as a valuable tool for informing future research exercises. Case studies and exercises are supported with online templates and solutions. This book will help analysts understand the contribution of decision-analytic modelling to the evaluation of health care programmes. ABOUT THE SERIES: Economic evaluation of health interventions is a growing specialist field, and this series of practical handbooks will tackle, in-depth, topics superficially addressed in more general health economics books. Each volume will include illustrative material, case histories and worked examples to encourage the reader to apply the methods discussed, with supporting material provided online. This series is aimed at health economists in academia, the pharmaceutical industry and the health sector, those on advanced health economics courses, and health researchers in associated fields.
Author : Gordon Mallarkey
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Medical
ISBN : UVA:X004439375
The purpose of economic evaluations in healthcare is to affect decision making. So how do you determine the best use of scarce resources, in terms of benefits gained from expenditures? The purpose of this book is to review the methods of economic evaluation and how they may be used optimally, and with practical results. It includes review articles on familiar analytical tools, opinion papers on areas of contention, and guidelines on how to apply and analyse economics tools, methods and models.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1958
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:933242876
Author : Stefan Felder,Thomas Mayrhofer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2023-04-06
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 3662646560
This textbook offers a comprehensive analysis of medical decision-making under uncertainty by combining test information theory with expected utility theory. The authors show how the parameters of Bayes’ theorem can be combined with a value function of health states in order to arrive at informed test and treatment decisions in the face of diagnostic and therapeutic risks. Distinguishing between risk-neutral, risk-averse, and prudent decision-makers, they demonstrate the effects of risk preferences on medical decisions. Furthermore, they analyze individual and multiple tests as well as diagnostic models in which the decision-maker chooses the test outcome. The consequences of test and treatment decisions for the patient are encompassed by quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) and the standard economic model, which applies the willingness to pay for health approach. Lastly, non-expected utility models of choice under risk and uncertainty are presented. Although these models can explain some of the test and treatment decisions observed, they are less suitable for normative analyses aimed at providing guidance on medical decision-making. This third edition provides extensively revised versions of all chapters and reflects recent innovations in medical decision-making such as decision curve analysis. New chapters focus on the health economics of and revealed preferences in medical decisions. The book is intended for students of (health) economics and medicine as well as for medical decision-makers and physicians dealing with uncertainty in their test and treatment decisions.
Author : Institute of Medicine,Council on Health Care Technology
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1989-02-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309040990
Technology assessment can lead to the rapid application of essential diagnostic technologies and prevent the wide diffusion of marginally useful methods. In both of these ways, it can increase quality of care and decrease the cost of health care. This comprehensive monograph carefully explores methods of and barriers to diagnostic technology assessment and describes both the rationale and the guidelines for meaningful evaluation. While proposing a multi-institutional approach, it emphasizes some of the problems involved and defines a mechanism for improving the evaluation and use of medical technology and essential resources needed to enhance patient care.
Author : Gavin H. Mooney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 171 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Medical care
ISBN : 0710807120
GM demonstrates the ways in which economic analysis is vital to health service policy making, whatever the nature of the health care system. He examines the basis for different health care markets and confronts the problems of first, determining and measuring the output of the health care sector, and second, valuation of these output. Health needs cannot always be met in a world of scarce resources. The medical profession can no longer afford to ignore economic realities which create choices fundamental to human welfare. GM examines the central concerns of medical ethics and equity. Both tend to conflict with efficiency, and while that may be acceptable in the case of equity, doubt is expressed about the appropriateness of the inefficiencies created by medical ethics.
Author : National Research Council,Division of Behavioral and Social Sciences and Education,Committee on National Statistics,Panel to Advance a Research Program on the Design of National Health Accounts
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-01-05
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780309186841
It has become trite to observe that increases in health care costs have become unsustainable. How best for policy to address these increases, however, depends in part on the degree to which they represent increases in the real quantity of medical services as opposed to increased unit prices of existing services. And an even more fundamental question is the degree to which the increased spending actually has purchased improved health. Accounting for Health and Health Care addresses both these issues. The government agencies responsible for measuring unit prices for medical services have taken steps in recent years that have greatly improved the accuracy of those measures. Nonetheless, this book has several recommendations aimed at further improving the price indices.
