Introduction to evidence-based and value-based medicine -- Barriers to entry -- Healthcare economics -- Total quality management and evidence-based medicine -- How to evaluate health-related quality-of-life instruments -- Classification of health-related quality-of-life instruments -- Function-based quality-of-life instruments -- Preference-based quality-of-life instruments -- Time-tradeoff utility analysis -- Construct validity -- Where is the value? -- Discounting made simple -- Decision analysis -- Costs -- Economic healthcare analyses -- Cost-utility analysis -- Guide to performing a cost-utility analysis -- Cost-utiltiy reference-case study with standardized parameters -- Value-based nursing -- Pharmacoeconomcs -- The paradigm will prevail.
Summary:
"An introduction to the principles behind value-based medicine and its role in improving the quality of healthcare in the U.S. and maximizing the use of healthcare resources"--Provided by publisher.
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