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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Main Authors: Jürgen John, Florian Koerber, Mareike Schad
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-12-01
Series:Cost Effectiveness and Resource Allocation
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s12962-019-0196-1