Titre :
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Portfolio theory and the alternative decision rule of cost-effectiveness analysis : theoretical and practical considerations. (2004)
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Auteurs :
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SENDI (Pedram) : CHE. Basel Institute for Clinical Epidemiology. Basel University Hospital. Basel. ;
AL (Maiwenn-J) : NLD. Institute for Medical Technology Assessment. Erasmus University. Rotterdam. ;
Stephen BIRCH ;
Amiram GAFNI ;
McMaster University. Center for Health Economics and Policy Analysis. Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics. Hamilton. ON. CAN
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Type de document :
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Article
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Dans :
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Social science and medicine (vol. 58, n° 10, 2004)
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Pagination :
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1853-1855
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Langues:
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Anglais
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Mots-clés :
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Théorie
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Analyse coût efficacité
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Economie santé
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Etude critique
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Etats Unis
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Amérique
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Financement soins
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Financement
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Homme
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Gestion
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Soins
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Etat santé
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Evaluation
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Amérique du Nord
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Résumé :
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[BDSP. Notice produite par INIST-CNRS EyR0xH7A. Diffusion soumise à autorisation]. Bridges and Terris (Soc. Sci. Med. (2004)) critique our paper on the alternative decision rule of economic evaluation in the presence of uncertainty and constrained resources within the context of a portfolio of health care programs (Sendi et al. Soc. Sci. Med. 57 (2003) 2207). They argue that by not adopting a formal portfolio theory approach we overlook the optimal solution. We show that these arguments stem from a fundamental misunderstanding of the alternative decision rule of economic evaluation. In particular, the portfolio theory approach advocated by Bridges and Terris is based on the same theoretical assumptions that the alternative decision rule set out to relax. Moreover, Bridges and Terris acknowledge that the proposed portfolio theory approach may not identify the optimal solution to resource allocation problems. Hence, it provides neither theoretical nor practical improvements to the proposed alternative decision rule.
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