Exploring challenges to TTO utilities: Valuing states worse than dead

Health Economics

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 393-402

  Robinson, Angela ^a   Spencer, Anne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Life profiles; MET preferences; Time trade off; Worse than dead states

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCORING SYSTEM; TIME;

ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; GREAT BRITAIN; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS;

EID: 33646067426     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.1069     Document Type: Article

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