Economics notes: Using cost effectiveness information

On the censored cost-effectiveness analysis using copula information

BACKGROUND Information and theory beyond copula concepts are essential to understand the dependence relationship between several marginal covariates distributions. In a therapeutic trial data scheme, most of the time, censoring occurs. That could lead to a biased interpretation of the dependence relationship between marginal distributions. Furthermore, it could result in a biased inference of t...

Notes for Economics 200c*

How physicians react to cost-effectiveness information.

Since 1998, the growth of health care spending has accelerated to levels not seen since the 1980s. This growth has renewed pressures on physicians to practice "cost-effective" care, since physicians' decisions account for the vast majority of all health care spending. But little is known about what physicians think about cost containment, and how they incorporate cost-effectiveness information ...

MATHEMATICAL ECONOMICS Lecture Notes 1

1 I am especially grateful to Juergen Jung, Mike Treuden, and Nathaniel Throckmorton for their tremendous contributions to these notes. I also thank Michael Kaganovich and Eric Leeper for their guidance and for giving me the opportunity to develop and teach this course during graduate school. Several classes of Indiana and Auburn University graduate students provided suggestions and corrections...

Cost, effectiveness, and cost-effectiveness.

Incremental or marginal cost-effectiveness ratios are founded on a number of assumptions that weaken their suitability as a way to balance competing economic and clinical priorities. We therefore propose a more relevant and responsible way to gauge the impact of clinical management strategies based on “consumer protection” principles—explicit disclosure of (1) the total magnitude of expected be...