Weighting and valuing quality-adjusted life-years using stated preference methods: preliminary results from the Social Value of a QALY Project

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NICE's social value judgements about equity in health and health care

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Valuing Health at the End of Life: A Stated Preference Discrete Choice Experiment

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Evaluación económica busca umbral para apoyar la toma de decisiones

“…Los autores que abogan por la perspectiva de la demanda, de acuerdo con el enfoque adoptado en otros ámbitos públicos en los que se utiliza el análisis coste-beneficio para tomar decisiones de inversión 21 , consideran que el umbral debe reflejar el valor de consumo que una sociedad otorga a las ganancias marginales en salud 22,23 . La segunda perspectiva se basa en la idea de que adoptar una nueva tecnología que impone costes adicionales al sistema de salud podría necesitar el desplazamiento de servicios existentes.…”