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cost-effectiveness

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cost-effectiveness,
the extent to which an activity is thought to be as valuable as it is expensive. A public-assistance program that issued vouchers for nutritious foods in pregnancy might be considered cost-effective if it lowered the costly incidence of perinatal morbidity.

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.


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The UK's National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) is an independent organization responsible for providing clinical and public health guidance to the National Health Service (NHS) in England and Wales based on best clinical and cost-effectiveness evidence.
 
 
 
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