Types of inconsistency in health-state utility judgments

Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes

Volumn 89, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 1100-1118

  Baron, Jonathan ^a   Ubel, Peter A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

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EID: 0036869472     PISSN: 07495978     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0749-5978(02)00019-5     Document Type: Article

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