Values for health states with different life durations

Luciana Scalone (), Peep Stalmeier, Silvano Milani and Paul Krabbe

The European Journal of Health Economics, 2015, vol. 16, issue 9, 917-925

Abstract: In discrete choice experiments using health states with different durations, these data present the first evidence for decreasing marginal utility for duration. Our results suggest that refinement of the standard QALY framework may be needed for states with a long duration. Copyright Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2015

Keywords: Values; Health states; Duration; Quality-adjusted life years; Discrete choice analysis; Time preferences (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1007/s10198-014-0634-0

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