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Clinical decision making: from theory to practice. Cost-effectiveness analysis. Is it up to the task?


 Eddy indentifies and discusses methodological problems with cost-effectiveness analysis as a means of allocating limited health care resources. The discussion takes the form of an imaginary dialogue between Eddy, a physician, and his late father, a general surgeon. It concludes with a brief assessment of Oregon's attempt to use cost-effectiveness analysis to allocate resources for state-funded health care.
