Cover: Valuing Health Technologies at NICE

Valuing Health Technologies at NICE

Recommendations for Improved Incorporation of Treatment Value in HTA

Published in: Health Economics, v. 19, no. 10, Oct. 2010, Editorial, p. 1109-1116

Posted on RAND.org on January 01, 2010

by Dana P. Goldman, Darius N. Lakdawalla, Tomas Philipson, Wesley Yin

The method currently used to value new health-care treatments in the UK does not adequately capture some dimensions of the full costs and benefits of those treatments to the citizenry supporting the National Health Service.

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