title: "Can we declare victory and move on?" The case against funding burden-of-disease studies.
abstract: Resources devoted to the development of burden-of-disease studies detract from much needed cost-effectiveness and cost-benefit studies. Practitioners need to help funders of burden-of-disease projects recognize the potential of all tools of decision analysis and economic evaluation in improving the efficiency and equity for the health care system.
authors.affiliation: The Medwin Group, St. Louis, MO, USA, smkymes@gmail.com.
authors.forename: Steven
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kymes
mesh_terms: D017281:Cost of Illness; D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis; D003657:Decision Making; D015276:Health Care Rationing; D006801:Humans