Assigning values to intermediate health states for cost-utility analysis: Theory and practice

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 376-385

  Cohen, Brian J ^a,b  

^a TUFTS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b TUFTS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

cost utility analysis; health care rationing; interpersonal comparisons of utility; strength of preference utility; utilitarianism; von Neumann Morgenstern utility

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH STATUS; QUALITY OF LIFE; RESOURCE ALLOCATION;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HEALTH SERVICES RESEARCH; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS;

EID: 0029795678     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X9601600408     Document Type: Article

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