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Abstract
A method of comparing the cost of a program with its expected benefits in dollars (or other currency). The benefit-to-cost ratio is a measure of total return expected per unit of money spent. This analysis generally excludes consideration of factors that are not measured ultimately in economic terms. In contrast a cost effectiveness in general compares cost with qualitative outcomes.
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- Cost Benefit Analysis
- Analyses, Cost Benefit
- Analysis, Cost Benefit
- Analysis, Cost-Benefit
- Cost Benefit Analyses
- Cost-Benefit Analyses
- Benefits and Costs
- Cost Benefit
- Cost and Benefit
- Cost-Benefit Data
- Cost-Utility Analysis
- Costs and Benefits
- Economic Evaluation
- Marginal Analysis
- Analysis, Cost-Utility
- Analysis, Marginal
- Benefit and Cost
- Cost Benefit Data
- Cost Utility Analysis
- Cost-Utility Analyses
- Data, Cost-Benefit
- Economic Evaluations
- Evaluation, Economic
- Marginal Analyses
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Indexed with the subheadings classification, economics, ethics, history, legislation & jurisprudence, methods, organization & administration, standards, statistics & numerical data, trends.
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- Costs and Cost Analysis (1966-1975)
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References
- National Library of Medicine. Cost-Benefit Analysis. Medical Subject Headings (MeSH). 2026. Unique ID D003362. http://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/2026/D003362
- Cost-Benefit Analysis. In: Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cost%E2%80%93benefit_analysis
- Cost-Benefit Analysis. In: Wikidata. https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q942582