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A
Adult Social Care Outcomes Toolkit (ASCOT)
Assistive Technology
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B
Base Case Analysis
Benchmarking
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C
Care Providers – Formal care
Care Providers – Informal care
Comparator
Costs of Care
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D
Disability adjusted life year (DALY)
Dominance
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E
Economic Evaluation
Economic Evaluation – Cost effective
Economic Evaluation – Cost saving
Economic Evaluation – Cost-benefit analysis (CBA)
Economic Evaluation – Cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA)
Economic Evaluation – Cost-utility analysis
Economic Evaluation – Decision trees
Economic Evaluation – Decision-modelling techniques (or economic modelling or economic models)
Economic Evaluation – Discounting
Effectiveness
Equity
EuroQol Five Dimension (EQ-5D)
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I
ICEpop CAPability measure for Older people (ICECAP-O)
Incremental analysis
Incremental cost-effectiveness ratio (ICER)
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L
Long-term care (LTC)
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M
Meta-Analysis
Mixed Economy and Marketisation
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N
Net Monetary Benefit (NMB) or net benefit
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O
Outcome Measures
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P
Performance Assessment
Perspective
Prevention
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Q
Quality of Care
Quality of Life (including ‘health-related quality of life’)
Quality-adjusted life year (QALY)
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R
Randomised controlled trial (RCT) or randomised controlled study
Rehabilitation
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S
Sensitivity analysis
Social Investment
Social investment in long-term care
Social Return on Investment (SROI)
Stakeholders
Systematic Review
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(Non-market) Valuation methods
(Non-market) Valuation methods – Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE)
(Non-market) Valuation methods – Life satisfaction (Wellbeing valuation)
(Non-market) Valuation methods – Return on investment
(Non-market) Valuation methods – Revealed preference
(Non-market) Valuation methods – Stated preference
(Non-market) Valuation methods – Willingness to Pay (WTP) or contingent valuation
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