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Evidence-based to value-based medicine / Melissa M. Brown, Gary C. Brown, Sanjay Sharma
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Edité par AMA Press - 2005
"An introduction to the principles behind value-based medicine and its role in improving the quality of healthcare in the U.S. and maximizing the use of healthcare resources"
Introduction to evidence-based and value-based medicine. Barriers to entry. Healthcare economics. Total quality management and evidence-based medicine. How to evaluate health-related quality-of-life instruments. Classification of health-related quality-of-life instruments. Function-based quality-of-life instruments. Preference-based quality-of-life instruments. Time-tradeoff utility analysis. Construct validity. Where is the value?. Discounting made simple. Decision analysis. Costs. Economic healthcare analyses. Cost-utility analysis. Guide to performing a cost-utility analysis. Cost-utiltiy reference-case study with standardized parameters. Value-based nursing. Pharmacoeconomcs. The paradigm will prevail.