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Cost-effectiveness: How do we avoid making a difficult science incomprehensible?

Kevin Frick Department of Health Policy and Management Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health Baltimore Maryland USACorrespondence[email protected]
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Steven Kymes Department of Ophthalmology and Visual Sciences Washington University St. Louis Missouri USA
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Gretchen Jacobson Department of Health Policy and Management Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Health Baltimore Maryland USA
Pages 331-335 | Published online: 08 Jul 2009

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