The Importance Of Correcting Health Valuations For Discounting

28 July 2010, 6:11 am

In health state valuations, the fact that many people weigh life years farther in the future less heavily than life years occurring earlier, can have a high impact on investment decisions in health care. Study objective: When valuing health improvements caused by medical interventions, a method, the time tradeoff method, is often used that is distorted by the tendency of people to attach more ...... Read More »

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