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AAP Grand Rounds 20:39 (2008)
© 2008 American Academy of Pediatrics

PERINATOLOGY/INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Weighing the Evidence: How Do You Put a Cost on Life?

Bernhard L. Wiedermann, MD, FAAP
Children’s National Medical Center and George Washington University, Washington, DC

 
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Some clinicians may prefer to glance only superficially at cost-effectiveness studies, noting quite appropriately that it is difficult to assign a dollar cost to health care outcomes, in particular when lives can be saved.

However, this type of analysis is particularly useful when deciding how to allocate scarce healthcare dollars, and it can also be useful to help patients and families assess their . . . [Full Text of this Article]