Not just about costs: the role of health economics in facilitating decision making in aged care

Julie Ratcliffe; Kate Laver; Leah Couzner; Ian Cameron; Leonard Gray; Maria Crotty

doi:10.1093/ageing/afq041

Not just about costs: the role of health economics in facilitating decision making in aged care

Julie Ratcliffe, Kate Laver, Leah Couzner, Ian Cameron, Leonard Gray, Maria Crotty

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Abstract

This commentary discusses how health economic techniques can usefully be applied to inform clinical and policy decision making in the aged care sector from two perspectives: firstly, in relation to the measurement and valuation of the costs and benefits of new and existing health care technologies and modes of aged care service delivery and secondly, in relation to the facilitation of autonomy and patient choice.

Original language	English
Article number	afq041
Pages (from-to)	426-429
Number of pages	4
Journal	Age and Ageing
Volume	39
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/ageing/afq041
Publication status	Published - 5 May 2010

Keywords

Choice
Economic evaluation
Elderly
Health economics
Preferences
Quality of life

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