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The background to the economic and medical evaluation of health care technologies could be summarized in two questions: How can the output of medical care be evaluated? How can the share of national resources devoted to health care be reduced? A new medical technology can be evaluated by medical measures, by economic measures, or by measures considering both spheres simultaneously (Figure 18.1). A medically better but more expensive technology is the most complicated case to be valued, since medical benefits must be weighted against increased expenditures, and both spheres, namely economic and medical, are involved.
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Sonnenberg, A., Fritsch, A., Sonnenberg, G.S. (1983). Discussion of Paper by Weisbrod. 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_18
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