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List of Tables and Figures | ||
Preface and Acknowledgments | ||
Overview | ||
Reader's Guide | ||
1 | Maximizing Value in Health Care | 1 |
1.1 | Introduction | 1 |
1.2 | The rationale for numerical measures of value | 2 |
1.3 | Available numerical measures of value | 4 |
2 | Three Basic Issues in Economic Evaluation | 7 |
2.1 | At which levels of decision may economic evaluation be helpful? | 7 |
2.2 | Values when caring for others versus values when thinking about self-interest | 8 |
2.3 | Resource allocation across programs is essentially about making person trade-offs | 13 |
Appendix | Welfare economics and person trade-offs | 15 |
3 | QALYs | 18 |
3.1 | What are QALYs? | 18 |
3.2 | Two major problems with QALYs | 21 |
4 | Concerns for Fairness | 23 |
4.1 | What is fairness? | 23 |
4.2 | QALYs and fairness | 23 |
4.3 | Fairness and gains in utility | 26 |
4.4 | Ways of measuring concerns for fairness | 30 |
4.5 | Societal concerns for severity | 32 |
4.6 | Rules of thumb concerning severity | 37 |
4.7 | Societal concerns for realizing potentials for health | 38 |
4.8 | Rules of thumb concerning severity and potentials for health | 42 |
4.9 | The self-interest perspective behind a veil of ignorance | 43 |
4.10 | The degree of error in utility-based predictions of societal preferences | 47 |
4.11 | The importance of the duration of a treatment effect | 50 |
4.12 | Does discounting for time preference solve the duration problem? | 55 |
4.13 | The importance of age | 57 |
4.14 | The importance of cost/the number of people helped | 61 |
4.15 | The importance of the chance of successful treatment | 70 |
4.16 | Summary | 73 |
4.17 | Are better weights or additional equity weights a solution? | 74 |
5 | The Limitations of Utility Measurement | 79 |
5.1 | Ex ante or ex post utilities? | 80 |
5.2 | Whom to ask | 82 |
5.3 | How to ask | 90 |
6 | Ways to Go | 113 |
6.1 | The problems | 113 |
6.2 | The person trade-off issue revisited | 115 |
6.3 | Acknowledging the value of disabled people's lives | 118 |
6.4 | Disability Adjusted Life Years (DALYs) | 121 |
6.5 | Toward cost-value analysis | 123 |
6.6 | Constructing a comprehensive value table | 127 |
6.7 | Measurement problems | 128 |
6.8 | The relevance of cost-value analysis in practical decision making | 132 |
6.9 | Conclusion | 141 |
Annex: An Example of Cost-Value Analysis | 143 | |
References | 146 | |
Index | 155 |
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