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- Title
Does the EQ-5D reflect lost earnings?
- Authors
Tilling, Carl; Krol, Marieke; Tsuchiya, Aki; Brazier, John; Exel, Job van; Brouwer, Werner
- Abstract
An important methodological issue in economic evaluations of healthcare is how to include productivity costs (the costs related to reduced productivity due to illness, disability and premature death). Traditionally, they were included in the numerator of a cost-effectiveness analysis, through either the human-capital or the friction-cost method. It has been argued, however, that productivity costs are already included in the denominator (i.e. in the QALY measure) because respondents consider the effect a given health state will have on their income when valuing health states. If that is the case, many previous economic evaluations might have double counted productivity costs by including them in both the numerator and the denominator.
- Publication
PharmacoEconomics, 2012, Vol 30, Issue 1, p47
- ISSN
1179-2027
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.2165/11539910-000000000-00000