MacKeigan, Linda D.; Gafni, Amiram; O'Brien, Bernie J. - In: Health Economics 12 (2003) 2, pp. 165-169
Quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) calculated from time tradeoff (TTO) based preferences have a time preference component. To impose a conventional discount rate on these implicitly discounted QALYs introduces some degree of double discounting. The purpose of this study was to determine the...