Centre-specific or average unit costs in multi-centre studies? Some theory and simulation

Health Economics

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 191-198

  Raikou, M ^a   Briggs, A ^b   Gray, A ^b   McGuire, A ^a  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b City University ^*

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness analysis; Costing methodology; Production relations; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MULTICENTER STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; MULTICENTER STUDIES;

EID: 0034100918     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-1050(200004)9:3<191::AID-HEC510>3.0.CO;2-1     Document Type: Article

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