Mes: diciembre 2006

Health Care Management Science, vol. 9, pp. 225 – 232. (2006).

Autores: Fernando Sanchez-Martınez & Jose-Maria Abellan-Perpinan & Jorge-Eduardo Martınez-Perez y Jaume Puig-Junoy.

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Abstract The objective of this paper is to provide a description and analysis of the main costing and pricing (reimbursement) systems employed by hospitals in the Spanish National Health System (NHS). Hospitals cost calculations are mostly based on a full costing approach as opposite to other systems like direct costing or activity based costing.

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Judgement and Decision Making, vol. 1(2), pp. 118 – 133. (2006).

Autores: José-Luis Pinto Prades, Jorge-Eduardo Martínez Pérez, José-María Abellán Perpiñán.

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This paper tests whether logically equivalent risk formats can lead to different health state utilities elicited by means of the traditional standard gamble (SG) method and a modified version of the method that we call “double lottery.”

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Health Economics, vol. 15, pp. 665 – 676. (2006).

Autores: José-María Abellán-Perpiñán, José-Luis Pinto-Prades, Ildefonso Méndez-Martínez y Xabier Badía-Llach

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This paper presents a test of the predictive validity of various classes of QALY models (i.e. linear, power and exponential models). We first estimated TTO utilities for 43 EQ-5D chronic health states and next these states were embedded in nonchronic health profiles.

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