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A sking patients to determine the value of drugs with questionable cost effectiveness could make the decision to withhold treatment ‘ more understandable and defensible ’, argues a new booklet from the UK’s Office of Health Economics. The report suggests performing ‘rough’ economic analyses to determine if a therapy is obviously cost effective or not, before deciding which treatments to present to patients, and considering the results when developing guidelines.
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Greener, M. Ask the patient about cost effectiveness. Pharmacoecon. Outcomes News 241, 3–4 (1999). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03275252
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