title: Are we ready to use cost-effectiveness analysis in health care decision-making? A health services research challenge for clinicians, patients, health care systems, and public policy.
abstract: The dominance of managed care as an organizing principle for health care delivery suggests that cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) may be applied increasingly to decision-making at all levels. Health services researchers now need to address questions of how to further the underlying methods of CEA, how to make it a more practical tool for market-based as well as public policy decisions, and how to enhance CEA's ability to lead to responsible decisions that result in more effective and efficient care.
authors.affiliation: Agency for Health Care Policy and Research, US Department of Health and Human Services, Rockville, Maryland 20852, USA.
authors.forename: E J
authors.initials: EJ
authors.lastname: Power
authors.forename: J M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Eisenberg
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006291:Health Policy; D006296:Health Services / Q000191:economics*; D006302:Health Services Research; D008329:Managed Care Programs / Q000191:economics; D011050:Policy Making; D014481:United States