Cost-Benefit Analyses in the Health-Care Literature: Don't Judge a Study by Its Label

Abstract

OBJECTIVES: To assess whether health-care related economic evaluations labeled as "cost benefit analyses" (CBA) meet a contemporary definition of CBA methodology and to assess the prevalence of methods used for assigning monetary units to health outcomes. DATA SOURCES: Medline, Current Contents, and HSTAR databases and reference lists of review articles, 1991-1995.

Authors

Zarnke KB; Levine MAH; O'Brien BJ

Journal

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Vol. 50, No. 7, pp. 813–822

Publisher

Elsevier

Publication Date

July 1997

DOI

10.1016/s0895-4356(97)00064-4

ISSN

0895-4356

Associated Experts

Mitchell Arnold Levine

Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences

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