title: Use and misuse of the term "cost effective" in medicine.
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Doubilet
authors.forename: M C
authors.initials: MC
authors.lastname: Weinstein
authors.forename: B J
authors.initials: BJ
authors.lastname: McNeil
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D004526:Efficiency; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care / Q000191:economics; D009626:Terminology as Topic