ASSUMPTIONS AND MODELS

Assumptions and Models

ASSUMPTIONS AND MODELS

The lack of appreciation by those involved in the creation of imaginary value claims in health technology assessment is not only a lack of appreciation of the need to meet the standards of normal science, including the axioms of fundamental evidence but also a failure to appreciate the role of assumptions in creating models; models which should be abandoned unless a case can be made that the modeling is short term and the value claims empirically evaluable. The focus on imaginary models

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