Biases in cost measurement for economic evaluation studies in health care

Health Economics

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 525-529

  Jacobs, Philip ^a   Baladi, Jean François ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Can Coord Off Hlth Technol A   (Canada)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness; Health care costs

Indexed keywords

COST; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL COST; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); COSTS AND COST ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HOSPITAL COSTS; HUMANS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 0030277511     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1050(199611)5:6<525::AID-HEC233>3.0.CO;2-E     Document Type: Review

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