title: Principles of economic evaluation in surgery.
abstract: This document reviews the key principles of economic evaluation as they pertain to the evaluation of surgical questions. It addresses the role of economic evaluation in health care decision making, describes the central issues in performing or evaluating an economic evaluation, and finally offers several examples of recent economic evaluations from the surgical literature. A concise annotated reference section is provided for those wishing to read further.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Medicine, Laboratory Medicine, and Pathobiology and Programme in Clinical Epidemiology and Health Services Research, University of Toronto, The Toronto General Hospital, Eng 248, Toronto, Ontario M5G 2C4, Canada.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Krahn
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D017048:Health Care Costs; D006801:Humans; D017063:Outcome Assessment, Health Care; D016032:Randomized Controlled Trials as Topic; D013514:Surgical Procedures, Operative / Q000191:economics*