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The word “evaluation” spans a very wide spectrum of meaning — ranging from the ill-defined usage of the popular press through the careful but nontechnical explanations of the Oxford English Dictionary to the rigorous definition used by economists. This paper therefore begins by summarizing what the author, a health care researcher, understands by “health care evaluation”. This phrase will be used to describe the process of choosing between alternative health care policies (in the widest sense, i.e. including alternative diagnostic technologies) by estimating the net value of each.
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Russell, I. (1983). The Evaluation of Computerized Tomography: A Review of Research Methods. In: Culyer, A.J., Horisberger, B. (eds) Economic and Medical Evaluation of Health Care Technologies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-69439-4_27
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