A multi-criteria decision analysis perspective on the health economic evaluation of medical interventions

European Journal of Health Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 709-716

  Postmus, Douwe ^a   Tervonen, Tommi ^b   Van Valkenhoef, Gert ^a   Hillege, Hans L ^a   Buskens, Erik ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b Erasmus University Rotterdam   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Health economic evaluation; Infertility treatment; Multi criteria decision analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; EMBRYO TRANSFER; FERTILIZATION IN VITRO; HUMAN; INFERTILITY THERAPY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REIMBURSEMENT; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH ECONOMICS; INFERTILITY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; ECONOMICS, HOSPITAL; HEALTH CARE COSTS; HUMANS; INFERTILITY; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; STOCHASTIC PROCESSES;

EID: 84906937836     PISSN: 16187598     EISSN: 16187601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10198-013-0517-9     Document Type: Article

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