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. 1999 Sep 4;319(7210):635-8.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.319.7210.635.

Handling uncertainty in economic evaluations of healthcare interventions

A H Briggs  1 , A M Gray
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Handling uncertainty in economic evaluations of healthcare interventions

A H Briggs et al. BMJ. .
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Figure 1
Alternative rank orderings of 61 British cost effectiveness results by baseline value (above) and highest sensitivity analysis value (below)
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Figure 2
The handling of cost variance by studies reporting patient level cost data
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References

    1. Briggs AH. Handling uncertainty in the results of economic evaluation. London: Office of Health Economics; 1995. (OHE briefing paper No 32.)
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    1. Briggs AH, Gray AM. Handling uncertainty when performing economic evaluations of health care interventions: a systematic review with special reference to the variance and distributional form of cost data. Health Technol Assess 1999;3(2). - PubMed
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    1. Gold MR, Siegel JE, Russell LB, Weinstein MC, editors. Cost-effectiveness in health and medicine. New York: Oxford University Press; 1996.

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