Economic issues in the development and use of practice guidelines: An application to resource allocation in dentistry

Community Dental Health

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 1996, Pages 70-75

  Birch, Stephen ^a,b   Leake, James L ^b   Lewis, Donald W ^b  

^a MCMASTER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Economics; Practice guidelines; Resource allocation

Indexed keywords

FISSURE SEALANT;

ARTICLE; CHILD; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DENTAL CARE; DENTAL CLINIC; DENTISTRY; HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATION; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMAN; MANAGEMENT; POLICY; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE;

CHILD; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DENTAL CARE FOR CHILDREN; DENTAL CLINICS; DENTISTRY; ECONOMICS, DENTAL; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; PIT AND FISSURE SEALANTS; POLICY MAKING; PRACTICE GUIDELINES; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC HEALTH DENTISTRY; PUBLIC POLICY;

EID: 0030162014     PISSN: 0265539X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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