▪ Abstract Cost-effectiveness analysis, an analytic tool that expresses as a ratio the cost of
obtaining an additional unit of health outcome, can help decision makers achieve more …

Although the US spends more on medical care than any country in the world, Americans live
shorter lives than the citizens of other high-income countries. Many important opportunities …

This chapter examines the process of identifying, quantifying, and valuing the resource costs
associated with healthcare interventions that arise due to the use and consequences of …

To address controversies in the application of cost-effectiveness analysis, we investigate the
principles underlying the technique and discuss the implications for the evaluation of …

Many countries use the cost–effectiveness thresholds recommended by the World Health
Organization's Choosing Interventions that are Cost–Effective project (WHO-CHOICE) when …

The growing demand for prospective evaluation enhances the popularity of cost-effective
ness analysis, a technique for identifying best uses of scarce resources. Defined in diverse …

The field's bestselling reference, updated with the latest tools, data, techniques, and the
latest recommendations from the Second Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and …

The application of cost-effectiveness analysis to health care has been the subject of
previous reviews. We address the use of economic evaluation methods in public health …

Importance Since publication of the report by the Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and
Medicine in 1996, researchers have advanced the methods of cost-effectiveness analysis …

Objective.—To develop consensus-based recommendations guiding the conduct of cost-
effectiveness analysis (CEA) to improve the comparability and quality of studies. The …