Economics of Individualization in Comparative Effectiveness Research and a Basis for a Patient-Centered Health Care

Anirban Basu

NBER Working Paper No. 16900
Issued in March 2011

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This work was supported by the Alan Williams Health Economics Fellowship from the University of York and a National Institute of Mental Health Research grant 1R01MH083706. The author is grateful to Karl Claxton, James Heckman, Thomas McGuire, David Meltzer, Harold Pollack, Rena Conti, Mark Sculpher, Sergio Urzua and two anonymous reviewers for their constructive comments on a previous draft or presentations of this work. The opinions expressed here are those of the author only, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.

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