Decision Modelling for Health Economic Evaluation

Easy and interesting read, no prior knowledge needed. The book covers the essentials in the domain.

Schnell geliefert, alles in Ordnung

This is a very strong book on advanced applied outcomes/cost-effectiveness research. I suppose this would not be the first thing I gave an undergraduate with no background in health or health economic research to use to learn applied cost-effectiveness, but it IS what I give to my research assistants when they come to work for me. There are many, many remedial and beginning books on this subject. The author's here are to be commended for trying to push the field forward towards using more rigorous evaluation methods. There are applied exercises that provide code to interested students who would like to learn how to create their own cost-effectiveness analyses. It is difficult to argue with the person who called this a manual for health care rationing. There are some in the United States, generally funded by the pharmaceutical or medical device industries, always Republican, who simply reject the notion of rigorously evaluating any health care expenditure for value and utility. These same people often wear three cornered hats, carry don't tread on me flags, and scream about the deficit without any comprehensive that health expenditures are the cause of our deficit. Its an incoherent position and one that has no place denigrating a strong book such as this one.

One of the best modeling books I have ever read. The step-by-step teaching of modeling techniques in this book is unparalleled by my standards. Wonderful book! Thank you.

This book is an excellent "how-to" for building economic cost-effectiveness models for healthcare. The bulk of it focuses on what I would describe as intermediately complex situations such as Monte Carlo simulation of decision trees and how to build Markov Models. It definitely assumes that you have already been introduced to economic evaluation conceptually and will be a bit too brief for someone looking to be taught the field from scratch. I'm honestly surprised by some of the experienced modelers dislike of this book in the other reviewer comments. It has a very exercise-heavy approach that may be tedious for those too experienced, but I picked this up after doing a theory course and it was the perfect supplement to put some of that work into practice.