Journal article
Attributing a monetary value to patients' time: A contingent valuation approach
Abstract
It is hard to ignore the importance of patient time investment in the production of health since the influential paper by Grossman (1972). Patients' time includes time to admission, travel time, waiting time, and treatment time and can be substantial. Patients' time is, however, often ignored in economic analyses. This may lead to biased results and inappropriate policy recommendations, which may eventually influence patients' health, wellbeing …
Authors
van den Berg B; Gafni A; Portrait F
Journal
Social Science & Medicine, Vol. 179, , pp. 182–190
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
April 2017
DOI
10.1016/j.socscimed.2017.02.025
ISSN
0277-9536