Measuring heart patients' willingness to pay for changes in angina symptoms

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 65-77

  Chestnut, Lauraine G ^a   Keller, L Robin ^b   Lambert, William E ^c   Rowe, Robert D ^a  

^a Hagler Bailly Consulting Inc   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

angina symptoms; averting behavior; contingent valuation; cost of illness; cost benefit analysis; welfare effects; willingness to pay

Indexed keywords

ANGINA PECTORIS; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; MALE; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; PUBLIC HEALTH; WELFARE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANGINA PECTORIS; CALIFORNIA; COST OF ILLNESS; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; EFFECT MODIFIERS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTIVATION; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUALITY OF LIFE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 0030043641     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X9601600115     Document Type: Article

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