The role of education in improving physicians' professional use of economic evaluations of health interventions: Some evidence from a cross-sectional survey in italy

Evaluation and the Health Professions

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 249-263

  De Vito, Corrado ^a   Nobile, Giuseppe Carmelo ^b   Furnari, Giacomo ^a   Pavia, Maria ^b   De Giusti, Maria ^a   Angelillo, Italo Francesco ^a   Villari, Paolo ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY MAGNA GRAECIA OF CATANZARO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness; Cost minimization; Physicians; Professional behavior

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HUMAN; ITALY; MALE; MEDICAL EDUCATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIAN;

ADULT; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; EDUCATION, MEDICAL, CONTINUING; FEMALE; HUMANS; ITALY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PHYSICIANS;

EID: 70349173674     PISSN: 01632787     EISSN: 15523918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0163278709338557     Document Type: Article

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