Willingness to Pay
Authors:
- Jose Luis ViramontesJVJose Luis Viramontes
- 1 August 1994
- journal article
- research article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Medical Decision Making
- Vol. 14 (3) , 289-297
Abstract
The development of methods to measure willingness to pay (WTP) has renewed interest in cost-benefit analysis (CBA) for the economic evaluation of health care programs. The authors studied the construct validity and test-retest reliability of WTP as a measure of health state preferences in a survey of 102 persons (mean age 62 years; 54% male) who had chronic lung disease (forced expiratory volume Key words: willingness to pay; health state preferences; economics. (Med Decis Making 1994;14:289-297)Keywords
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