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Allocating health care resources when people are risk averse with respect to life time
Hoel, Michael - Helseøkonomisk Forskningsprogram (HERO), Universitetet … - 2009
The criterion of cost-effectiveness in health management may be given a welfaretheoretical justification if people are risk neutral with respect to life years. With risk aversion, the optimal allocation of health expenditures change: Compared to the costeffective allocation, more resources...
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How you ask is what you get: Willingness-to-pay for a QALY in Germany
Ahlert, Marlis; Breyer, Friedrich; Schwettmann, Lars - 2014
gain of one quality-adjusted life year (QALY). While one version of the survey exactly copied the questionnaire used in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010368309
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The impact of reimbursement negotiations on cost and availability of new pharmaceuticals: Evidence from an online experiment
Wettstein, Dominik J.; Boes, Stefan - In: Health Economics Review 10 (2020) 13, pp. 1-15
(QALY). There is a clear need to understand the capacity of "value-based" pricing policies to impact societal goals, like …
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Economic evaluation of process utility: Elucidating preferences for a non-invasive procedure to treat restenosis
Aviles-Blanco, Maria V. - In: Health Economics Review 11 (2021) 1, pp. 1-10
measured using the QALY methodology. Even though there is consistent evidence of utility not only being derived from outcomes … but also from procedures, process utility has not been fully integrated in QALY calculations. The aim of this paper is … showed positive preferences for avoiding angioplasty, with an estimated mean WTP of €5692.87. Using QALY gains for avoiding …
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Cost-utility analysis of total knee arthroplasty for osteoarthritis in a regional medical center in China
Gui, Qi; Zhang, Xinghuo; Liu, Liang; Zhao, Feng; Cheng, … - In: Health Economics Review 9 (2019) 15, pp. 1-8
its effectiveness of the treatment. The total expense was the cost of patient hospitalization. The cost per QALY was … calculated. The cost-benefit ratio (CBR) was expressed as a ratio of each QALY's expenditure to per capita gross domestic product … age and sex, a total of ?2487.74 QALYs and ?3237.37/QALY were gained, 10% less than the regional GDP per capita. The cost …
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Considering the societal perspective in economic evaluations: A systematic review in the case of depression
Duevel, Juliane; Hasemann, Lena; Peña-Longobardo, Luz … - In: Health Economics Review 10 (2020) 32, pp. 1-19
Background: Depressive disorders are associated with a high burden of disease. However, due to the burden posed by the disease on not only the sufferers, but also on their relatives, there is an ongoing debate about which costs to include and, hence, which perspective should be applied....
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HIT-6 and EQ-5D-5L in patients with migraine: assessment of common latent constructs and development of a mapping algorithm
Oliveira Gonçalves, Ana Sofia; Panteli, Dimitra; Neeb, Lars - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 23 (2021) 1, pp. 47-57
Objective The aims of this study were to assess whether there is a conceptual overlap between the questionnaires HIT-6 and EQ-5D and to develop a mapping algorithm allowing the conversion of HIT-6 to EQ-5D utility scores for Germany. Methods This study used data from an ongoing randomised...
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Systematic review of health state utility values for economic evaluation of colorectal cancer
Jeong, Kim; Cairns, John - In: Health Economics Review 6 (2016) 36, pp. 1-10
-adjusted life-years (QALY). This study reviews CRC-related HSUVs that could be used in economic evaluation and assesses their …
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What You Ask is What You Get: Willingness-to-Pay for a QALY in Germany
Ahlert, Marlies; Breyer, Friedrich; Schwettmann, Lars - 2013
We report results of a survey of a representative sample of the German population in which respondents were asked in various scenarios for their willingness-to-pay (WTP) for a gain of one quality-adjusted life year. While one version of the survey exactly copied the setting (online survey) and...
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Economic analyses on the cost of Gender-Based Violence in Namibia
Breuer, Saskia - 2021
Violence against women is acknowledged globally as a fundamental human rights violation. Gender-Based Violence [GBV] is prevalent across high, middle, and low-income countries. It produces high economic costs in terms of expenditures on service provisions, lost income, and decreased...
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