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Four Issues in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and Health Technology Assessment: a View from the Touch-line

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Like many fathers and grandfathers, I have spent long hours in bad weather on touchlines urging on bunches of muddy little – and not so little – knots of boys and girls in amateur soccer league matches (in my case it has been almost exclusively soccer – a game I never played myself).

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    Anthony J. Culyer

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  1. Spanish Association for Healthcare Technology,Evaluation (AEETS), Director, Gaspar Casal FoundationPresident, Madrid, Spain

    Juan E. del Llano-Señarís

  2. Health Services and Policy Research, Balearic Health Service, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

    Carlos Campillo-Artero

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Culyer, A.J. (2015). Four Issues in Cost-Effectiveness Analysis and Health Technology Assessment: a View from the Touch-line. In: del Llano-Señarís, J., Campillo-Artero, C. (eds) Health Technology Assessment and Health Policy Today: A Multifaceted View of their Unstable Crossroads. Adis, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15004-8_5

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