01254nam a2200229Ia 4500 CTU_167352 210402s9999 xx 000 0 und d 100 362.1 N828 Nord, Erik Cost-value analysis in health care : making sense out of QALYs Erik Nord New York Cambridge University Press 1999 This book is a comprehensive and fully up-to-date account of what it means to try to quantify health in distributing resources for health care. It offers an elegant new approach to comparing the costs and benefits of medical interventions. Erik Nord questions Cost-Utility Analysis (CUA) and the feasibility of measuring patients' quality of life meaningfully in numerical terms. He presents an alternative approach called cost-value analysis in which representative samples of the general public express preferences among different health-care programs Health care rationing,Medical care,Quality of life,Chăm sóc y tế,Chất lượng sống Cost effectiveness,Mathematical models Nguyên Trung tâm Học liệu Trường Đại học Cần Thơ