A cost-effectiveness worksheet for patient-education programs.

نویسندگان

  • Janet L Welch
  • Mary L Fisher
  • Nancy E Dayhoff
چکیده

This article describes the development, implementation, and evaluation of a worksheet used by nursing faculty in a graduate clinical nurse specialist course to assist students in learning to estimate the cost-effectiveness of patient-education programs.1 The worksheet was found to be a satisfactory method of facilitating student learning and could also be used in the service arena to evaluate the cost aspects of patient-education programs.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Clinical nurse specialist CNS

دوره 16 4  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2002