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| Study of health care interventions and health care quality that are evaluated to measure the extent to which optimum desirable outcome can be reached. |
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E - Economic outcome
C - Clinical outcome
H O - Humanistic Outcome |
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Short Form 36
Designed for use in clinical, practice and research, healthcare policy eval, and general population SURVEY |
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| Assigns benefits a dollar value, and compared only in dollars. |
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| Cost and consequences, units such as blood glucose level or mm Hg |
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| Cost Minimization Analysis |
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| Only to compare equal therapies, and utilize the cheapest |
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| QALY - Compares cost to Quality of life outcomes |
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| Opportunity cost due to illness |
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| Health Related Quality of Life |
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| non-clinical information: well-being, functional status, perception of health. |
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| Technique used to assess the PERCEIVED value or benefit of a product and service |
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| Multi-attribute Utility theory |
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| Assessing utilities eg. clinical, financial effects, as well as quality of life |
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| Who is pharmacoeconomics centered towards? |
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