Clinical decision making: from theory to practice. Cost-effectiveness analysis. Is it up to the task?

Eddy indentifies and discusses methodological problems with cost-effectiveness analysis as a means of allocating limited health care resources. The discussion takes the form of an imaginary dialogue between Eddy, a physician, and his late father, a general surgeon. It concludes with a brief assessment of Oregon's attempt to use cost-effectiveness analysis to allocate resources for state-funded health care.