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You are here > Home > Reading Lists > Finance & Accounting > Designing & Conducting Cost-Effectiveness Analyses Designing and Conducting Cost-Effectiveness Analyses in Medicine and Health Care Peter Muennig Hardcover: 384 pages ISBN 0787960136 Jossey-Bass March 2002 Price: $70.00 (Amazon may reduce this price for you)   The field of cost-effectiveness analysis has lacked a resource until now. Designing and Conducting Cost-Effectiveness Analyses in Medicine and Health Care is a hands-on guide for conducting economic analyses that closely follows the recommendations of the Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine.  Step by step, Dr. Muennig outlines the theory and practice of cost-effectiveness and shows how to develop an original research question, retrieve data, design a decision analysis tree, calculate quality-adjusted life years, and test for error in analysis. The book provides clear and detailed instruction and includes a review of the epidemiological and biostatistical skills needed to conduct cost-effectiveness analyses.  This book includes advanced topics for policymakers, community health experts, and preventive medicine residents who are interested in the field. It uses a worked example to walk the reader through the process of designing and conducting an analysis and provides links to all of the major Internet-accessible sources of government data. This book includes the following discussions, models and resources: Elements of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Principles of Cost-Effectiveness Analysis. The Cost-Effectiveness Ratio Comparing Interventions Defining the Comparator Interpreting Incremental Changes in Cost and Effectiveness. Cost-Effectiveness Versus Cost-Utility Analysis Cost-Benefit Analysis Cost-Minimization Analysis Burden of Disease Analysis. Ten Steps to a Perfect Research Project. Designing Your Analysis. List the Data Elements That You Will Need. Working with Data. Review of Rates. Prevalence Versus Incidence The Relationship Between Risks and Rates Risk over a Long Period of Time. Managing Error in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis Frequency Distributions and Random Error. Calculating Weighted Means. Evaluating Study Limitations. Review of Medical Study Designs Using Electronic Datasets. Using Data Extraction Tools Using Printed Tabulations of Electronic Data Using Data from Piggybacked Studies. Using Expert Opinion. Organizing Your Data. Working with Probabilities. Incidence and Prevalence. Efficacy and Measures of Risk. Bias in Screening Interventions Medical Care Utilization. Health-Related Quality of Life Scores. Obtaining Scores from Published Lists Generating HRQL Scores Using Instruments. Mortality Data. Opportunity Costs Three Steps to Estimating Costs Micro-Costing and Gross-Costing. Measuring Changes in Costs. Fixed Costs and Variable Costs Friction Costs and Transfer Payments. Using Diagnosis Codes. Future Medical Costs. Adjusting Costs. Adjusting for Inflation Calculating Cost-to-Charge Ratios Discounting Future Costs. Assessing the Relevancy of Cost Data. Determining Which Costs to Include. Hospital and Ambulatory Costs Time Costs Types of Decision Analysis Models Constructing Simple Decision Analysis Models. Working with Quality of Life Measures. Deriving HRQL Scores. Using Preference-Weighted Generic Instruments HRQL Scores Generated from Large Health Surveys Using Disability-Adjusted Life Years. Calculating Quality-Adjusted Life Years. Using the Life Table Method Calculating QALYs in the Sample Analysis. Conducting a Sensitivity Analysis. Analysis of Influence. Determining the Plausible Range of Each Variable Generating an Influence Diagram. Monte Carlo Simulation. Preparing Your Study for Publication. Content and Structure of Cost-Effectiveness Articles. Publishing Your Research. Working with Measures of Risk. Bayes Theorem. Generating Life Tables. Calculating QALE Using Markov Models. Census Tables " strongly recommended for those individuals interested in a basic presentation of applied cost-effectiveness analysis and cost-utility analysis in health technology assessment " - Journal of Drug Assessment, No.5, 2002 Peter Muennig is the director of program in cost-effectiveness and outcomes at the Robert J. Milano Graduate School of Management and Urban Policy at New School University, where he teaches courses in cost-effectiveness, decision analysis, and epidemiology. Hardcover: 384 pages ISBN 0787960136 Jossey-Bass March 2002 Price: $68.00 (Amazon may reduce this price for you)   The field of cost-effectiveness analysis has lacked a resource until now. 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