Valuing health care : costs, benefits, and effectiveness of pharmaceuticals and other medical technologies

1. Introduction Frank A. Sloan 2. Evidence of effectiveness: evaluating its quality Allan S. Detsky 3. Utility assessment for estimating quality-adjusted life years Robert M. Kaplan 4. Measuring costs David Dranove 5. From cost-effectiveness ratios to resource allocation: where to draw the line? Milton C. Weinstein 6. Valuing health care benefits in money terms Mark V. Pauly 7. Discounting health effects for medical decisions W. Kip Viscusi 8. Statistical issues in cost-effectiveness analyses John Mullahy and Willard Manning 9. Decision trees and Markov models in cost-effectiveness research Emmett Keeler 10. Alternative methods of allocating health resources under constraints Frank A. Sloan and Christopher J. Conover.