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A comparison between willingness to pay and willingness to give up time.
MedLine Citation:
PMID:  18437436     Owner:  NLM     Status:  MEDLINE    
Abstract/OtherAbstract:
We compared the willingness-to-pay and willingness to give up time methods to assess preferences for digital subtraction angiography (DSA), computed tomography angiography (CTA) and magnetic resonance angiography (MRA). Respondents were hypertensive patients suspected of having renal artery stenosis. Data were gathered using telephone interviews. Both the willingness-to-pay and willingness to give up time methods revealed that patients preferred CTA to MRA in order to avoid DSA. The agreement between willingness-to-pay and willingness to give up time responses was high (kappa 0.65-0.85). The willingness-to-pay method yielded relatively more protest answers (12%) as compared to willingness to give up time (2%). So, our results provided evidence for the comparability of willingness to pay and willingness to give up time. The high percentage of protest answers on the willingness-to-pay questions raises questions with respect to the application of the willingness-to-pay method in a broad decision-making context. On the other hand, the strength of willingness-to-pay is that the method directly arrives at a monetary measure well founded in economic theory, whereas the willingness to give up time method requires conversion to monetary units.
Authors:
Debby van Helvoort-Postulart; Carmen D Dirksen; Alfons G H Kessels; Jos M A van Engelshoven; M G Myriam Hunink
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Publication Detail:
Type:  Comparative Study; Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't     Date:  2008-04-25
Journal Detail:
Title:  The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care     Volume:  10     ISSN:  1618-7598     ISO Abbreviation:  Eur J Health Econ     Publication Date:  2009 Feb 
Date Detail:
Created Date:  2008-12-17     Completed Date:  2009-07-23     Revised Date:  -    
Medline Journal Info:
Nlm Unique ID:  101134867     Medline TA:  Eur J Health Econ     Country:  Germany    
Other Details:
Languages:  eng     Pagination:  81-91     Citation Subset:  IM    
Affiliation:
Department of Clinical Epidemiology, University Hospital Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands. debby@helvoort.info
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MeSH Terms
Descriptor/Qualifier:
Adult
Aged
Angiography, Digital Subtraction / economics
Cohort Studies
Decision Making
Female
Health Expenditures*
Humans
Hypertension / complications
Magnetic Resonance Angiography / economics
Male
Middle Aged
Patient Participation / economics*
Questionnaires
Renal Artery Obstruction / complications,  diagnosis*
Time Factors
Tomography, X-Ray Computed / economics
Young Adult

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