Cutler, David M.; Ericson, Keith M. Marzilli. - In: PharmacoEconomics 28 (2010) 10, pp. 867-875
We consider how to conduct cost-effectiveness analysis when the social cost of a resource differs from the posted price …. From the social perspective, the true cost of a medical intervention is the marginal cost of delivering another unit of a … treatment, plus the social cost (deadweight loss) of raising the revenue to fund the treatment. We focus on pharmaceutical …