Economic evaluation of interventions for problem drinking and alcohol dependence: Cost per QALY estimates

Alcohol and Alcoholism

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 549-555

  Mortimer, Duncan ^a   Segal, Leonie ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NALTREXONE; PLACEBO;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOLISM; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST OF ILLNESS; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; CRISIS INTERVENTION; DETOXIFICATION; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; MEDICARE; METHODOLOGY; PATIENT COUNSELING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOTHERAPY; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; QUALITY OF LIFE; SEX DIFFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL DETERRENTS; ALCOHOLISM; AUSTRALIA; COGNITIVE THERAPY; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; FINANCING, GOVERNMENT; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ECONOMIC; MOTIVATION; NONDIRECTIVE THERAPY; PSYCHOTHERAPY, BRIEF; PSYCHOTHERAPY, GROUP; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

EID: 27744547732     PISSN: 07350414     EISSN: 14643502     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/alcalc/agh192     Document Type: Article

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