Priority setting: the importance of incorporating opportunity costs
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Priority setting: the importance of incorporating opportunity costs
This article is a comment on Ofra Golan and Paul Hansen's framework for health technology prioritization that they suggest could be developed and used by the committee selecting new technologies for Israel's health basket. Although Golan and Hansen should be commended for the innovative way they have started to explore these issues, more work need to be done to take proper account of opportunit...
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عنوان ژورنال: Israel Journal of Health Policy Research
سال: 2012
ISSN: 2045-4015
DOI: 10.1186/2045-4015-1-45