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Transforming EQ-5D utilities for use in cost–value analysis of health programs
Nord, Erik; Johansen, Rune - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 16 (2015) 3, pp. 313-328
In a number of jurisdictions there is increasing interest in incorporating concerns for fairness in models for economic evaluation of health interventions. Cost–value analysis is a name for evaluations with such a broader aim. The most widely held concern for fairness is a concern for the...
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Reconciling cost-effectiveness with the rule of rescue: the institutional division of moral labour
Orr, Shepley; Wolff, Jonathan - In: Theory and Decision 78 (2015) 4, pp. 525-538
Cost-effectiveness analysis suggests that a society should allocate its health care budget in order to achieve the greatest total health for its budget. However, in ‘rescue’ cases, where an individual’s life is in immediate peril, reasoning in terms of cost-effectiveness can appear...
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Cost-effectiveness analysis of the surgical treatment of female urinary incontinence using slings
Montesino-Semper, Manuel F.; Jiménez-Calvo, Jesús M.; … - Departamento de Economía - Universidad Pública de Navarra - 2013
month and 1 year post-operation to calculate the utility, using qualityadjusted life years (QALY), and the effectiveness … post-operation was 1,220€. The QALY achieved at 1 year was 0.046. The results reveal an ICER at 1 year of 26,288 €/QALY …,191 €/QALY). To achieve greater temporal perspective, we examined the ICER at 5 years, which was 10,141 €/QALY, demonstrating …
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The Customer Cannot Choose
Donkers, Bas - Erasmus Research Institute of Management (ERIM), … - 2013
People can choose and they make many choices each and every day. However, most people are unaware of how strong their environment influences the choices they make. In his inaugural address, Bas Donkers highlights the impact of what people see (and what they don’t see), what people experience...
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Willingness to pay and QALYs: What can we learn about valuing foodborne risk?
Andersson, Henrik; Hammitt, James; Sundström, Kristian - Laboratoire d'Économie des Ressources Naturelles … - 2011
WTP per QALY. We find that WTP is increasing with but not proportional to the change in QALYs. Our monetary estimates are …
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Toward a more universal approach in health valuation
Craig, Benjamin M.; Busschbach, Jan J. V. - In: Health Economics 20 (2011) 7, pp. 864-875
health on a quality-adjusted life year (QALY) scale. The scenarios typically involve trade‐offs in time (time trade‐off (TTO …)), risk (standard gamble (SG)), or number of persons affected (person trade‐off (PTO)). This paper revisits the QALY …. The proposed approach avoids the use of ratio statistics in QALY estimation and the common convention of arbitrarily …
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The Zero-Condition: A Simplifying Assumption in QALY Measurement and Multiattribute Utility
Miyamoto, John M.; Wakker, Peter P.; Bleichrodt, Han; … - In: Management Science 44 (1998) 6, pp. 839-849
-condition simplifies the measurement and derivation of the Quality Adjusted Life Year (QALY) measure commonly used in medical decision …
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Largely ignored: the impact of the threshold value for a QALY on the importance of a transferability factor
Vemer, Pepijn; Mölken, Maureen Rutten-van - In: The European Journal of Health Economics 12 (2011) 5, pp. 397-404
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Cost-Benefit Analysis for Investment Decisions: Chapter 15 (Cost-Effectiveness and Cost-Utility Analysis)
Jenkins, Glenn Paul; Kuo, Chun-Yan; Harberger, Arnold C. - Economics Department, Queen's University - 2011
Non-tradable items are those which are not traded internationally. They include items such as services where the demander and producer must be in the same location, and commodities which have low value relative to either their weight or volume. In such cases the transportation charges prevent...
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Bridging the gap: health equality and the deficit framing of health
Morton, Alec - In: Health Economics 19 (2010) 12, pp. 1497-1501
The analyst tasked with measuring population health, with appraising healthcare investments, or allocating healthcare resources, may frame their task in one of two possible ways: either as being concerned with health assets (e.g. health expectancy or stock of QALYs), or with health deficits (a...
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