AdViSHE: A Validation-Assessment Tool of Health-Economic Models for Decision Makers and Model Users

PharmacoEconomics

Volumn 34, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 349-361

  Vemer, P ^a,b   Corro Ramos, I ^c   van Voorn, G A K ^d   Al, M J ^c   Feenstra, T L ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^e NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DELPHI STUDY; FEASIBILITY STUDY; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VALIDATION PROCESS; WORKSHOP; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ECONOMIC MODEL; PROCEDURES; VALIDATION STUDY;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; ECONOMICS, MEDICAL; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMIC; VALIDATION STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 84961204018     PISSN: 11707690     EISSN: 11792027     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40273-015-0327-2     Document Type: Article

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