Journal article
Cost-effectiveness league tables: More harm than good?
Abstract
In recent years it has become fashionable to make comparisons (in 'league tables' or rankings) between health care interventions in terms of their relative cost-effectiveness, in cost per life-year or cost per quality-adjusted life-year gained. However, concerns have been raised about the unthinking use of league tables and some authors have questioned the theoretical basis of their construction. In this paper a recently-reported league table …
Authors
Drummond M; Torrance G; Mason J
Journal
Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 37, No. 1, pp. 33–40
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
July 1993
DOI
10.1016/0277-9536(93)90315-u
ISSN
0277-9536