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Valuing health at the end of life: an empirical study of public preferences
Shah, Koonal; Tsuchiya, Aki; Wailoo, Allan - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 15 (2014) 4, pp. 389-399
In 2009, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) issued supplementary advice to its Appraisal … cost-effective. However, NICE’s public consultation revealed concerns that there is little scientific evidence to support … single ‘consensus’ set of preferences, we conclude that there are ways in which the results suggest that the current NICE …
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Valuing health at the end of life: A stated preference discrete choice experiment
Shah, Koonal K.; Tsuchiya, Aki; Wailoo, Allan J. - In: Social Science & Medicine 124 (2015) C, pp. 48-56
A source of debate in the field of health care priority setting is whether health gains should be weighted differently for different groups of patients. The debate has recently focused on the relative value of life extensions for patients with short life expectancy. However, few studies have...
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Governing healthcare: Finding meaning in a clinical practice guideline for the management of non-specific low back pain
Wilson, Nicky; Pope, Catherine; Roberts, Lisa; Crouch, … - In: Social Science & Medicine 102 (2014) C, pp. 138-145
Clinical practice guidelines produced by NICE – the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence – are seen as key … mechanisms to regulate and standardise UK healthcare practice, but their development is known to be problematic, and their … the response of healthcare professionals to publication of a single NICE guideline in 2009 which proposed a re …
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Real and nominal UK interest rates, ERM membership and inflation targeting
Reschreiter, Andreas - 2006
This paper models the time-varying mean of the UK real and nominal short-term interest rate. Both rates mean revert to …, the mean of the real and nominal short rate have a strong negative correlation. Afterwards, when the UK implemented an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293725
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Die Entwicklung kollektiver Verhandlungen in Großbritannien: ein historischer Überblick
Zagelmeyer, Stefan - 2003
Im Laufe des 20. Jahrhunderts waren die Kollektivverhandlungsstrukturen in Großbritannien einem beträchtlichen Wandel unterworfen. Während die Bedeutung kollektiver Verhandlungen bis Ende der 70er Jahre zugenommen hat, ist der Deckungsgrad kollektiver Verhandlungen seit 1980 drastisch...
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Self-Selection into Export Markets by Business Services Firms: Evidence from France, Germany and the United Kingdom
Wagner, Joachim; Temouri, Yama; Vogel, Alexander - 2011
significantly smaller in Germany, significantly larger in France, and does not differ significantly in the UK. The results for wages … services firms into exporting does not show up among firms from France and the UK where no statistically significant …
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Citizenship tests in five Countries: An expression of political liberalism?
Michalowski, Ines - 2009
the US, Austria, the UK, Germany, and the Netherlands. A central question discussed is whether these tests can be …
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An Exploratory Study of Fresh Food E-Commerce in the UK and China
Shi, Yangyan; Xie, Chunxiao; Han, Rui - In: International Journal of Applied Logistics (IJAL) 8 (2018) 2, pp. 1-18
literature. To better understand the fresh food markets, it analyzes the operational model of respective suppliers in the UK and …
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Analysing the Effects of Symbolic Capital on Ethnic Entrepreneurship
Ojo, Sanya - In: International Journal of E-Entrepreneurship and … 8 (2018) 1, pp. 16-41
This article advances a structure for understanding the factors, e.g. capital, strategies, culture, and opportunity structure, affecting the embeddedness of ethnic entrepreneurship growth and development in the country of residence. Through the employment of the concept of symbolic capital the...
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How Do UK B2C High-Tech Start-ups Utilise Innovation Through Social Media to Improve Business Performance and Outcomes?
Alsharief, Raja Yahya - In: International Journal of Online Marketing (IJOM) 8 (2018) 1, pp. 37-54
This article describes how social media in the business world today has been one of the major trends that highly affects business transactions worldwide. Existing literature focused on how businesses can leverage social media to better interact with their customers, and how to use of social...
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