作者: Rikke Søgaard , Terkel Christiansen , Finn Bjarke Christensen
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-04547-9_36
关键词: Health care 、 Preference 、 Low back pain 、 Health economics 、 EQ-5D 、 Cost utility 、 Clinical trial 、 Actuarial science 、 Population health 、 Psychology
摘要: What was formerly known as medicine has now become health care, an amalgam of several disciplines, including economics. The role economics is fairly straightforward, namely to facilitate priority-setting under the objective maximizing population health. For that purpose, cost-utility evaluations, providing a cost per quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) for different choices, have popular. If evaluations are be run alongside clinical trials, trialists append instrument measurement generic, preference-based outcomes. this chapter provide some basis choice assess outcomes in trials conducted low back pain.