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Economics, health and health economics: HYEs versus QALYs
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In this paper, Culyer and Wagstaff's (CW) and Buckingham's (B) arguments about the equivalence of HYEs and QALYs are refuted.About:
This article is published in Journal of Health Economics.The article was published on 1993-10-01. It has received 112 citations till now.read more
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A review of the use of health status measures in economic evaluation.
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Using conjoint analysis to take account of patient preferences and go beyond health outcomes : an application to in vitro fertilisation
TL;DR: It is argued that benefit assessment within health economics should extend beyond health outcomes and future research should investigate more thoroughly the potential application of conjoint analysis in this area.
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Valuing health states: a comparison of methods.
TL;DR: A study which compared a "props" and a "no props" variant of each method suggested that both non props variants might be susceptable to framing effects and that TTP props outperformed SG props.
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The physician–patient encounter: The physician as a perfect agent for the patient versus the informed treatment decision-making model
TL;DR: It is argued that the approach of transferring information to the patient is easier (but not easy) and, hence, more feasible than transferring each patient's preferences to the physician in each medical encounter.
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Preference-Based Measures in Economic Evaluation in Health Care
TL;DR: Although cost-utility analyses have become more popular recently, many challenges remain for the field and widespread acceptance of the methodology likely awaits more consensus on measurement techniques, as well as educational efforts in the public health and medical communities on the usefulness of the approach.
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Theory of Games and Economic Behavior
TL;DR: Theory of games and economic behavior as mentioned in this paper is the classic work upon which modern-day game theory is based, and it has been widely used to analyze a host of real-world phenomena from arms races to optimal policy choices of presidential candidates, from vaccination policy to major league baseball salary negotiations.
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Measurement of health state utilities for economic appraisal.
TL;DR: A framework for economic appraisal is presented displaying the various components that must be measured, and showing how the three forms of analysis relate to the framework and to each other.
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Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour. By John Von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern. Pp. xviii, 625. 66s. 6d. 1944. (Princeton U.P.; Humphrey Milford)
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Choice under Uncertainty: Problems Solved and Unsolved
TL;DR: The choice-under-uncertainty theory is a field in flux as mentioned in this paper and it is being challenged on several grounds from both within and outside economics, and the nature of these challenges, and of our profession's responses to them, is the topic of this paper.
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Theory of Games and Economic Behaviour.
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