title: Making tough decisions.
abstract: It is amazing that so much money is spent on health care with little understanding and measurement of its effect on people's health status. But tightened health care budgets and the explosion of new and often expensive health care technologies have forced governments, providers and taxpayers to examine how best to maximize health dollars. This has led to greater reliance on economic evaluations to help make difficult choices.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Vail
mesh_terms: D002170:Canada; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D015276:Health Care Rationing / Q000458:organization & administration; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D016896:Treatment Outcome