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Purpose
of Economic Analysis
The purpose of an economic
analysis is to evaluate the use of relevant resources (e.g.
labor, time, facilities, equipment, knowledge) that are used in
a given health care intervention, either in a comparison with
some alternative intervention or as a description in economic
terms of the disease state under study. While economists are interested
in the resources directly, quantities of resources are difficult
to aggregate for the purpose of economic analysis. Cost data provide
the means to aggregate measures of resource use with a single
metric.
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