<section xml:id="hec3018-sec-0001" numbered="no"> Background</title> The appropriate thresholds for decisions on the cost‐effectiveness of medical interventions remain controversial, especially in ‘end‐of‐life’ situations. Evidence of the values placed on different types of health gain by the general public is limited.</section> <section xml:id="hec3018-sec-0002" numbered="no"> <title type="main">Methods</title> Across nine...</section>

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...

Recently, for many health economics researchers, empirical estimation of the monetary valuation of a quality-adjusted life year (QALY) has become an important endeavour. Different philosophical and practical approaches to this have emerged. On the one hand, there is a view that, with health-care...

This study has produced new evidence on age-related weights for health gains that can potentially inform health care decision-making. </AbstractSection> Copyright Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2013

Alongside a growing body of empirical research relating to willingness to pay (WTP) valuations of the environment, health and safety, there is mounting evidence of embedding, framing effects and other anomalies in responses. Gaining an understanding into how respondents arrive at WTP values is...

Standard gamble (SG) is commonly used to elicit preferences in order to assess health related quality of life. There has been little qualitative research exploring how respondents answer such questions.<P>An SG study was designed to elicit values for the health states associated with...</p>