Les analyses medico-economiques: un complement necessaire a "evidence based medicine". [Medical-economic analysis: a necessary complement to "evidence based medicine"]
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serval:BIB_3D2B3CB3CB29
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Title
Les analyses medico-economiques: un complement necessaire a "evidence based medicine". [Medical-economic analysis: a necessary complement to "evidence based medicine"]
Journal
Revue Médicale de la Suisse Romande
ISSN
0035-3655 (Print)
Publication state
Published
Issued date
04/2001
Volume
121
Number
4
Pages
265-8
Notes
English Abstract
Journal Article --- Old month value: Apr
Journal Article --- Old month value: Apr
Abstract
After an extraordinary technical development, medicine is under close scrutiny and requested to prove that its diagnostic and therapeutic procedures are "efficient, appropriate, and economical". Evidence based medicine allows the optimal use of existing data in the literature, but focuses only on health care benefits. Economical analyses take into account the health care resources needed to get these benefits. The various types of costs, perspectives of analysis, and techniques for assessing benefits and uncertainty about cost estimates, are presented and illustrated with two examples drawn from the fields of primary care and advanced technology. Because the cost benefit ratio of a diagnostic or therapeutic procedure is heavily dependent on the type of patients to which it is applied, as well as on the stage of technological progress, the two types of information are necessary to fully assess medical procedures.
Keywords
Cost-Benefit Analysis
Evidence-Based Medicine/*organization & administration
Health Care Costs/*statistics & numerical data
Health Care Rationing/organization & administration
Humans
Outcome Assessment (Health Care)
Primary Health Care/economics/standards
Quality-Adjusted Life Years
Switzerland
Technology Assessment, Biomedical
Technology, Medical/economics/standards
Pubmed
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