Health utility measures and the standard gamble

Academic Emergency Medicine

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 360-363

  Garza, Alex G ^a   Wyrwich, Kathleen W ^b  

^a TRUMAN MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b SAINT LOUIS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; EMERGENCY MEDICINE; HEALTH CARE; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY OF LIFE; RATING SCALE; REVIEW; TECHNIQUE;

ACUTE DISEASE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION SUPPORT TECHNIQUES; HEALTH STATUS INDICATORS; HUMANS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT (HEALTH CARE); PYELONEPHRITIS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS;

EID: 0037390769     PISSN: 10696563     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1197/aemj.10.4.360     Document Type: Review

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