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The risk of dying in fires in nursing homes is six times the risk of dying in fires at home in Sweden. The risk of being injured in nursing homes is even higher. The reason is that fire alarms do not help if people have problems moving around, or have dementia and do not understand what is going...
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As the use of cost-effectiveness analysis with quality adjusted life years (QALY) as the outcome measure grows in … policy use, a major unresolved issue is that of the monetary value to place on a QALY. This paper addresses this issue by … estimating and discussing willingness to pay (WTP) estimates for a QALY in Sweden This paper uses all published estimates of the …
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growing literature on the monetary value of a QALY based on estimates of the willingness to pay (WTP). This paper conducts a … review of the literature on the WTP for a QALY. In total 24 studies containing 383 unique estimates of the WTP for a QALY are … analyses the results indicate that the WTP for a QALY is significantly higher if the QALY gain comes from life extension rather …
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