A cost-effectiveness worksheet for patient-education programs.
This article describes the development, implementation, and evaluation of a worksheet used by nursing faculty in a graduate clinical nurse specialist course to assist students in learning to estimate the cost-effectiveness of patient-education programs.1 The worksheet was found to be a satisfactory method of facilitating student learning and could also be used in the service arena to evaluate the cost aspects of patient-education programs.
Welch
Janet L
JL
Indiana University School of Nursing, Indianapolis 46202-5107, USA.
Fisher
Mary L
ML
Dayhoff
Nancy E
NE
D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D004511:Education, Nursing, Graduate; D005568:Forms and Records Control; D009720:Nurse Clinicians / Q000193:education*; D010353:Patient Education as Topic / Q000191:economics*