A Practical Guide to Value of Information Analysis

PharmacoEconomics

Volumn 33, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 105-121

  Wilson, Edward C F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CLINICAL DECISION MAKING; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CORE THEORY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DECISION THEORY; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE SYSTEM; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MEDICAL INFORMATION; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL CONCEPTS; SYSTEMATIC REVIEW (TOPIC); VALUE OF INFORMATION ANALYSIS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; METHODOLOGY; RESEARCH; SAMPLE SIZE;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HUMANS; RESEARCH; RESEARCH DESIGN; SAMPLE SIZE;

EID: 84955385145     PISSN: 11707690     EISSN: 11792027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40273-014-0219-x     Document Type: Article

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