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In this chapter two specific and related economic techniques of evaluation—cost-effectiveness analysis and cost-benefit analysis— are discussed. Both are important but perform rather different functions. Many studies in health care which claim to be cost-benefit studies are in practice cost-effectiveness studies and it is therefore necessary to delineate clearly between the two approaches lest the unwary reader be misled.
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© 1986 Gavin H. Mooney, Elizabeth M. Russell and Roy D. Weir
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Mooney, G.H., Russell, E.M., Weir, R.D. (1986). Techniques for Evaluation. In: Choices for Health Care. Studies in Social Policy. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-18252-7_4
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