Priority setting of health interventions: The need for multi-criteria decision analysis

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation

Volumn 4, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Baltussen, Rob ^a,b   Niessen, Louis ^a  

^a ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^b RADBOUD UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DISEASE SEVERITY; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIMARY MEDICAL CARE; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESEARCH PRIORITY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SCORING SYSTEM;

EID: 33748604772     PISSN: 14787547     EISSN: 14787547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7547-4-14     Document Type: Article

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