Lifetime QALY prioritarianism in priority setting: Quantification of the inherent trade-off

Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 2014, Pages

  Ottersen, Trygve ^a   Mæstad, Ottar ^b   Norheim, Ole F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b CHR MICHELSEN INSTITUTE   (Norway)

Author keywords

Cost effectiveness; Empirical ethics; Equity weights; Political philosophy; Prioritarianism; Priority setting; Quality adjusted life years

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COMPUTER PROGRAM; HEALTH CARE PLANNING; HUMAN; LIFESPAN; NORMAL HUMAN; NORWAY; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; QUESTIONNAIRE; RESEARCH PRIORITY; SELF ADMINISTRATION TEST; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; ETHICS; HEALTH; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTERNET; MEDICAL STUDENT; PHILOSOPHY; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

EID: 84892386905     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14787547     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7547-12-2     Document Type: Article

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