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Priority setting: the importance of incorporating opportunity costs

This article is a comment on Ofra Golan and Paul Hansen’s framework for health technology prioritization that they suggest could be developed and used by the committee selecting new technologies for Israel’s health basket. Although Golan and Hansen should be commended for the innovative way they hav...

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Autor principal: Norheim, Ole Frithjof
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2012
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3527203/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23181422
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2045-4015-1-45
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spelling pubmed-35272032012-12-21 Priority setting: the importance of incorporating opportunity costs Norheim, Ole Frithjof Isr J Health Policy Res Commentary This article is a comment on Ofra Golan and Paul Hansen’s framework for health technology prioritization that they suggest could be developed and used by the committee selecting new technologies for Israel’s health basket. Although Golan and Hansen should be commended for the innovative way they have started to explore these issues, more work need to be done to take proper account of opportunity costs. BioMed Central 2012-11-26 /pmc/articles/PMC3527203/ /pubmed/23181422 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/2045-4015-1-45 Text en Copyright ©2012 Norheim; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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