Meta-Analysis, Decision Analysis, and Cost-Effectiveness Analysis
Diana B. Petitti
Abstract
This book is an introduction to three methods of quantitative synthesis—meta-analysis, decision analysis, and cost-effectiveness analysis. These methods are used widely to summarize information in order to guide the formulation of clinical recommendations and guidelines, and in clinical decision-making and health policy. The book gives step-by-step instructions on how to conduct studies that use each of the three methods, emphasizing the need for rigor. Important controversies about the statistical and mathematical theories that underlie the methods are highlighted, and key assumptions are ide ... More
Keywords: synthesis, systematic review, meta-analysis, decision analysis, cost-effectiveness analysis, decision-making, guidelines
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 1999 | Print ISBN-13: 9780195133646 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2009 | DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195133646.001.0001 |
