The handling of uncertainty in economic evaluations of health care strategies;Le traitement de l'incertitude dans les évaluations économiques de stratégies sanitaires

Revue d'Epidemiologie et de Sante Publique

Volumn 51, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 255-276

  Siani, C ^a   Moatti, J P ^a  

^a INSERM   (France)

Author keywords

Confidence regions; Incremental cost effectiveness ratio; Uncertainty

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; REVIEW; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ECONOMICS; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; REPRODUCIBILITY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNCERTAINTY;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNCERTAINTY;

EID: 0141687042     PISSN: 03987620     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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