Willingness to pay for a quality-adjusted life year: an evaluation of attitudes towards risk and preferences
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Willingness to pay for a quality-adjusted life year: an evaluation of attitudes towards risk and preferences
BACKGROUND This paper examines the Willingness to Pay (WTP) for a quality-adjusted life year (QALY) expressed by people who attended the healthcare system as well as the association of attitude towards risk and other personal characteristics with their response. METHODS Health-state preferences, measured by EuroQol (EQ-5D-3L), were combined with WTP for recovering a perfect health state. WTP ...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Health Services Research
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1472-6963
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-14-287