Recommendations of the Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine
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The Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine presents its recommendations in the second of three articles. The panel hopes to forward the cause of developing a standardized technique that will help in comparing studies. Discussed are the rationales for their recommendations, the components belonging in the numerator and denominator of a cost to effectiveness ratio, considerations in measuring costs, considerations in evaluating health or quality of life benefits, considerations in estimating effectiveness of interventions, factors in adjusting cost calculations, and how to estimate uncertainty in results.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1996
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The role of cost-effectiveness analysis in health and medicine
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A panel of scientists and scholars convened by the US Public Health Service has published recommendations for improving cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA). CEA is used to determine the costs and patient benefits of medical treatments in order to identify the treatments that produce the greatest benefits for the least amount of money. The Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine recommends that all studies of CEA include a reference case to allow all CEA studies to be compared. The measure of patient benefit should be the quality-adjusted life-years, or QALY.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1996
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Recommendations for reporting cost-effectiveness analyses
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The Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine has published standards for reporting cost-effective analyses (CEAs). CEAs are done to estimate the benefits of a treatment compared to its costs. The panel found that many CEAs are not adequately reported. The panel recommends using a reference case to ensure that the CEAs of all the treatments for a medical condition can be compared.
Publication Name: JAMA, The Journal of the American Medical Association
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0098-7484
Year: 1996
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