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Category Archives: Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Cancer Care’s “Culture of Excess”

By Jessica Wapner
Posted: September 27, 2011
Category: cancer, Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, Healthcare | Tagged biomarkers, cancer, cancer care, cancer cost, complex adaptive systems, European Multidisciplinary Cancer Congress, FiercePharma, incremental cost-effectiveness ratios, moral hazard, Richard Sullivan, The Huffington Post, The Lancet Oncology | 3 Comments

Taking a Stab at Cost-Effectiveness

By Jessica Wapner
Posted: April 6, 2011
Category: cancer, Clinical Trials, Cost-Effectiveness Analysis, drug cost | 1 Comment
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