Currency conversion is not only issue in effectiveness studies

Autor:	Lorne E Basskin
Rok vydání:	2002
Předmět:	External validity business.industry Currency Value (economics) General Engineering General Earth and Planetary Sciences Medicine General Medicine Monetary economics business Dollar exchange rate General Environmental Science Task (project management)
Zdroj:	BMJ. 325:1244-1244
ISSN:	1468-5833 0959-8138
DOI:	10.1136/bmj.325.7374.1244
Popis:	EDITOR—Gosden and Torgerson mention that currency conversions make the use of foreign pharmacoeconomic analyses of questionable value.1 I agree that currency conversion is a difficult task, particularly when the euro to dollar exchange rate has gone from 1:0.80 to 1:1.08 in less than two years. But the problem of external validity or usefulness in other settings goes far beyond currency conversion issues. Even in the same country, published analyses tend to be of little value because the underlying prices or costs of the …
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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