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WARNER AND HUTfON
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observers. this Journal issue stands as a
landmark in the evaluation of medical
practice.
Two years later, another issut ,,f the New
EnglandJournal of /Medicine offered readers
a discussiop of CEA methodology." a
, iphisticated application of it,' and an i.n-
portant, thoughtful treatbnent of the limitations
ol formal analysis.?' Many health services
researchers adjudge this package.
1omnhined with Weinstein and Stason's
b>ook on hypertension policy,? to be a
smilestone in health care CBAICEA. At the
end of that same year. in Deemilber 1977.
the Arthur D. Littie Company euinpleted
an "Iiatroduction to Cost-Bene'`t Analysis
Applied ta, New Healthl TechnMlogies."`'
This duocumiment, intended to assist health
plaanners and otliers, was prepared under a
tvimtract with the 3Bureau of Hiealth Planitling
tand Heoiíir.t D'v'elO>hpilctnt ¡in tihe
llealth Restaurces AdministrUtion. 1fiEW.
In December 1978at the Url>ian Ilnititute
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