Differential discounting in the economic evaluation of healthcare programs
Abstract Background The question of appropriate discount rates in health economic evaluations has been a point of continuous scientific debate. Today, it is widely accepted that, under certain conditions regarding the social objective of the healthcare decision maker and the fixity of the budget for...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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BMC
2019-12-01
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Series: | Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation |
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Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1186/s12962-019-0196-1 |