Introduction: The health care budget in the UK is finite and, as such, decisions must be made about how best to allocate scarce resources. Cost effectiveness analysis, and its overall summary measure of cost per quality adjusted life year (QALY) gained from an intervention, is used as part of...

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The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the UK makes recommendations to the NHS on the adoption (or continuation) of therapies. This requires judgements about whether the values/weights attached to gains in quality and length of life should vary according to the...