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Research type: |
Methodology |
Title (lead author) etc: |
Weighting and valuing quality-adjusted life-years using stated preference methods: preliminary results from the Social Value of a QALY Project (Baker) 161 pages, Volume 14, number 27 |
DOI |
10.3310/hta14270 |
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Headline: |
Study found that it may be premature to propose any particular set of quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) weights, and, for valuing QALYs in monetary terms, particular attention needs to be given to survey design and measures of central tendency |
Special notes |
Commissioned under the Research Methodology Programme as Project RM03/JH12/CD. |
This report should be referenced as follows: |
Baker R, Bateman I, Donaldson C, Jones-Lee M, Lancsar E, et al. Weighting and valuing quality-adjusted life-years using stated preference methods: preliminary results from the Social Value of a QALY Project. Health Technol Assess 2010;14(27). |
Project ref: |
06/91/05 |
Original project title: |
What is the value to society of a QALY? |
Chief Investigator: |
Professor Cam Donaldson, Yunus Chair in Social Business and Health,
Yunus Centre for Social Business and Health Institutes for Applied Health Research and Society & Social Justice Research, Glasgow Caledonian University |
Start Date: |
October 2004 |
Date of publication in HTA journal series |
June 2010 |
Cost: |
£424,832 |
Project Protocol: |
Project protocol not available |
Printed copies of this title despatched: |
102 (Figures relate to the previous calendar month) |
URL of this page: |
http://www.hta.ac.uk/1578 |
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