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© 1973 Oxford University Press

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The Use of Outcome Measures in Health Service Planning

J. D. POLE1

1 The author is a Senior Economic Adviser at the Department of Health and Society Security, Alexander Fleming House, Elephant and Castle, London SE1 6BY, England. The views expressed are his own and not those of the Department.

The application of health indices for planning purposes depends on the availability of information about the costs and effectiveness of the activities to which the indices relate. DHSS is experimenting with broad grouping of activities based on medical specialty, but more detailed analysis of activities presents conceptual and practical difficulties.


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