Inquiry into the relationship between equity weights and the value of the QALY

Value in Health

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 1119-1126

  Bobinac, Ana ^a   Van Exel, N Job A ^a   Rutten, Frans F H ^a   Brouwer, Werner B F ^a  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

distributional concern; economic evaluations; efficiency; equity; QALY; threshold; WTP

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; HEALTH ECONOMICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; TAX;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; HEALTH CARE RATIONING; HUMANS; MODELS, ECONOMIC; PATIENT ACCEPTANCE OF HEALTH CARE; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; SOCIAL VALUES;

EID: 84871224110     PISSN: 10983015     EISSN: 15244733     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jval.2012.07.002     Document Type: Article

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