Can we fix it? Yes we can! But what? A new test of procedural invariance in TTO-measurement

Health Economics

Volumn 17, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 877-885

  Attema, Arthur E ^a,c   Brouwer, Werner B F ^b  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b ERASMUS MEDICAL CENTER   (Netherlands)

^c NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Loss aversion; Procedural invariance; Time trade off method; Utility of life duration

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HEALTH ECONOMICS; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LIFE EXPECTANCY; LIFESPAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; QUALITY OF LIFE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TIME TRADE OFF;

ADULT; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DECISION MAKING; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; PROBABILITY; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; QUESTIONNAIRES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 48249090457     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.1315     Document Type: Article

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