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ABSTRACT A major driver of cost growth in health care is the rapid increase in the utilisation of existing technology and not simply the adoption of new technology. Health economists and their health technology assessment colleagues have become obsessed by technology adoption questions and have...
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ABSTRACT The elicitation of societal views about healthcare priority setting is an important, contemporary research area, and there are a number of studies that apply either qualitative techniques or quantitative preference elicitation methods. However, there are methodological challenges in...
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Evidence suggests that previous uses of willingness to pay (WTP) to value close substitutes may have failed to discriminate between the alternatives being evaluated. This paper reports on the application of a new technique for measuring WTP in such contexts. The alternatives evaluated are two...
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Background: Published guidelines on the conduct of economic evaluations provide little guidance regarding the use and potential bias of the different costing methods. <P>Objectives: Using microcosting and two gross-costing methods, we (1) compared the cost estimates within and across subjects, and...</p>
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