Euthanasia, religiosity and the valuation of health states: results from an Irish EQ5D5L valuation study and their implications for anchor values

Euthanasia, religiosity and the valuation of health states: results from an Irish EQ5D5L valuation study and their implications for anchor values

Abstract Background The Quality Adjusted Life Year influences the allocation of significant amounts of healthcare resources. Despite this surprisingly little research effort has been devoted to analysing how beliefs and attitudes to hastening death influence preferences for health states anchored at...

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Main Authors: Luke Barry, Anna Hobbins, Daniel Kelleher, Koonal Shah, Nancy Devlin, Juan Manuel Ramos Goni, Ciaran O’Neill
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2018-07-01
Series:Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
Subjects:
Euthanasia
Religion
EQ5D5L
Anchor states
Worse than dead
Ireland
Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12955-018-0985-9

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