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Assessing the Economic Value of Anticancer Therapies

With ever increasing demands on the constrained resources available for health care services, no one involved in decision making in health care can any longer ignore the economic costs of the services provided or the relative value for money offered by the available treatments. Economic evaluation has therefore become an important and indispensable tool for medical decision taking, alongside the well-known methods for clinical evaluation. This book provides a comprehensive survey and assessment of the current state of the art of economic evaluation and cost analysis in cancer

eBook, English, 1998
Springer Berlin Heidelberg, Berlin, Heidelberg, 1998