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A response to Birch and Gafni – some reasons to be cheerful about NICE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 April 2007

MARTHE GOLD  and
STIRLING BRYAN
MARTHE GOLD*
Affiliation:
Professor and Chair, Department of Community Health and Social Medicine, City University of New York Medical School, New York, USA
STIRLING BRYAN
Affiliation:
Professor of Health Economics and Director of the Health Economics Facility at University of Birmingham, UK
*
*Correspondence to: Marthe Gold MD, MPH, Department of Community Health and Social Medicine, City University of New York Medical School, 138th Street and Convent Avenue – Harris 406, New York, NY 10031, USA. Email: goldmr@med.cuny.edu
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Health Economics, Policy and Law , Volume 2 , Issue 2 , April 2007 , pp. 209 - 216
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