Roughly right or precisely wrong? Systematic review of quality-of-life weights elicited with the time trade-off method

Journal of Health Services Research and Policy

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 43-50

  Arnesen, Trude ^a,c   Trommald, Mari ^b  

^a Fafo Institute for Applied International Studies   (Norway)

^b NORWEGIAN INSTITUTE OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Norway)

^c Fafo   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

QUALITY OF LIFE;

COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSIS RELATED GROUP; DISEASE SEVERITY; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; QUALITY OF LIFE; REVIEW;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIAGNOSIS-RELATED GROUPS; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; HEALTH PRIORITIES; HUMANS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0842305804     PISSN: 13558196     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1258/135581904322716111     Document Type: Review

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