Are health states 'timeless'? The case of the standard gamble method

Journal of Clinical Epidemiology

Volumn 52, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 1047-1053

  Bala, Mohan V ^a   Wood, Lisa L ^b   Zarkin, Gary A ^b   Norton, Edward C ^c   Gafni, Amiram ^d   O'Brien, Bernie J ^e  

^a CENTOCOR INC   (United States)

^b RTI INTERNATIONAL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^d Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis   (Canada)

^e CENTRE FOR EVALUATION OF MEDICINES   (Canada)

Author keywords

QALYs; Standard gamble; Utility independence

Indexed keywords

AGED; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; TECHNIQUE;

AGED; ALGORITHMS; DELIVERY OF HEALTH CARE; HEALTH STATUS; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMANS; PAIN; PROGRAM EVALUATION; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

EID: 0032887336     PISSN: 08954356     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-4356(99)00074-8     Document Type: Article

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