Cost effectiveness of continuing professional development in health care: a critical review of the evidence
BMJPublished 16 March 2002Open access
Celia Brown
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The need for economic evaluation of CPD activities is highlighted, but they emphasised the use of cost benefit analysis, which requires monetary values to be assigned to measures of effectiveness.
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Economics, Econometrics and FinanceHealth Professions
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