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cost-effectiveness analysis
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cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA),
a type of economic evaluation used to determine the best use of money available for medical care. It compares different kinds of interventions with similar, but not identical, effects on the basis of the cost per unit achieved.

cost-effectiveness
pertaining to cost-effective.

cost-effectiveness analysis
a comparison of the relative cost-efficiencies of two or more ways of performing a task or achieving an objective.

cost-effectiveness analysis
Cost-utility analysis Clinical trials A form of economic analysis in which alternative interventions are compared in terms of the cost per unit of clinical effect–eg cost per life saved, per mm Hg of lowered BP, per yr of quality-adjusted life gained, etc Health care policy Analysis related to the effectiveness of therapies or interventions and their associated costs. Cf Cost-benefit analysis.


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Cost effectiveness analysis of strategies for maternal and neonatal health in developing countries.
10) This relational interpretation of cost-effectiveness implies that the accepted technology has undergone a favorable cost effectiveness analysis, and in some cases incorrectly implies cost savings.
Cost Effectiveness Analysis in Health reviews issues and methods of assessing health care technologies and related programs.
 
 
 
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