Patient experience – the ingredient missing from cost-effectiveness calculations
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Patient experience – the ingredient missing from cost-effectiveness calculations
Standard cost-effectiveness calculations as used by the UK National Institute of Clinical Excellence compare the net benefit of an intervention with the financial costs to the health service. Debates about public health interventions also focus on these factors. The subjective experience of the patient, including financial costs and also transient pain, distress, and indignity, is routinely ign...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Patient Preference and Adherence
سال: 2011
ISSN: 1177-889X
DOI: 10.2147/ppa.s20243