
Contents
Preface xiii
Glossary xvii
1 Introduction to health economic evaluation 1
1.1 Introduction ........................... 1
1.2 Healtheconomicevaluation ................... 2
1.2.1 Clinical trials versus decision-analytical models . . . . 5
1.3 Costcomponents......................... 6
1.3.1 Perspectiveandwhatcostsinclude........... 6
1.3.2 Sourcesandtypesofcostdata ............. 7
1.4 Outcomes ............................. 9
1.4.1 Conditionspecificoutcomes............... 10
1.4.2 Genericoutcomes..................... 10
1.4.3 Valuingoutcomes..................... 13
1.5 Discounting............................ 17
1.6 Typesofeconomicevaluations ............... ...