Barriers to generalizability of health economic evaluations in Latin America and the Caribbean region

PharmacoEconomics

Volumn 27, Issue 11, 2009, Pages 919-929

  Augustovski, Federico ^a   Iglesias, Cynthia ^b   Manca, Andrea ^b   Drummond, Michael ^b   Rubinstein, Adolfo ^a   Martí, Sebastián García ^a  

^a HOSPITAL ITALIANO DE BUENOS AIRES   (Argentina)

^b UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARGENTINA; BRAZIL; CENTRAL AMERICA; CHILE; COLOMBIA; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; FUNDING; HEALTH CARE NEED; HEALTH CARE POLICY; METHODOLOGY; MEXICO; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SOUTH AND CENTRAL AMERICA;

CARIBBEAN REGION; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EVALUATION STUDIES AS TOPIC; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; LATIN AMERICA; MODELS, ECONOMIC;

EID: 70449369368     PISSN: 11707690     EISSN: 11792027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2165/11313670-000000000-00000     Document Type: Review

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