Journal article
Handling Regional Variation in Health State Preferences within a Country
Abstract
BACKGROUND: Health state preferences vary among countries, and country-specific value sets are important in health care reimbursement decisions. When decisions are made at the regional level, regional variation in health state preferences may be important. We propose that shrinkage analysis and Bland-Altman plots can be a helpful way to investigate regional variation.
METHODS: The presence of regional variation can be investigated by …
Authors
Pullenayegum EM; Sunderland KM; Johnson JA; Xie F
Journal
Medical Decision Making, Vol. 37, No. 3, pp. 252–261
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Publication Date
April 2017
DOI
10.1177/0272989x16651885
ISSN
0272-989X