Lancsar, Emily; Wildman, John; Donaldson, Cam; Ryan, Mandy - In: Journal of Health Economics 30 (2011) 2, pp. 466-478
This paper presents the first attempt to use a discrete choice experiment to derive distributional weights for quality adjusted life years (QALYs), based on characteristics (age and severity) of the beneficiaries. A novel approach using the Hicksian compensating variation is applied. Advantages...