Discounting in economic evaluations: Stepping forward towards optimal decision rules

Health Economics

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 307-317

  Gravelle, Hugh ^a   Brouwer, Werner ^b   Niessen, Louis ^b   Postma, Maarten ^c   Rutten, Frans ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness; Discounting; Value of Health

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BUDGET; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE FINANCING; HEALTH ECONOMICS; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ECONOMICS, MEDICAL; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LIFE TABLES; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; VALUE OF LIFE;

EID: 33947222015     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.1168     Document Type: Article

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