Recently, a number of papers have brought up the issue of how to make cost-effectiveness (CE) studies stochastic, i.e. how to obtain confidence intervals for CE ratios. In this note we present a bootstrap procedure for estimating bias-corrected confidence intervals for CE ratios. The bootstrap...

A social tariff of EuroQol time trade-off (TTO) values was recently presented. We compared the social tariff and patient TTO values among 104 women with mild and severe menopausal symptoms. The social tariff and patient TTO values were elicited both after and before hormone replacement therapy...

This paper analyses productivity growth in health care delivery in Sweden and the impact of health care policy initiatives on productivity. In particular we consider the maximum waiting time guarantee introduced in Sweden 1992. The intention of the maximum waiting time guarantee was to shorten...

This study addresses the question of willingness to pay (WTP) for hormone replacement therapy (HRT) in order to alleviate menopausal symptoms. The woman obtains utility from consumption of goods and health. The purchase of a treatment is represented as a shift in the health production function...

This paper discusses the definition, interpretation and computation of cost-effectiveness (CE) acceptability curves. A formal definition of the CE acceptability curve based on the net benefit approach is provided. The curve can be computed using parametric or non-parametric techniques and for...

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The study aimed to estimate the value of the change in health in Sweden 1980|81 to 1996|97. Quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) for men and women at specific ages were estimated for 1980|81, 1988|89 and 1996|97, by combining survival rates and health state scores. Data from the Swedish Survey of...

It has been suggested that an open-ended follow-up question should be added to the binary contingent valuation question. Before this is generally recommended, it is important to evaluate the properties of such follow-up questions. Using a split sample approach, we test whether the open-ended...

The aim of this study was to estimate the change in socio-economic differences in life expectancy and in quality-adjusted life years (QALYs), for men and women at different ages, in Sweden 1980 to 1997. We used data from the Swedish Survey of Living Conditions (the ULF survey), which is linked...