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To the Editor: Shortly after reading the commentary by Neumann et al. (Oct. 6 issue),¹ I met with several residents in internal medicine to discuss economic evaluation in health care. I was struck by their lack of knowledge not only about the methods and uses of cost-effectiveness analysis but also about the structure and financing of the health care system.

Any "campaign to educate policymakers and the public"¹ about the rationale for cost-effectiveness analysis should include efforts to educate our medical students and ourselves. In the crowded medical curriculum, when there is a choice between adding more course work in . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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