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SUBMITTER: Siverskog J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6602994 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Siverskog Jonathan J Henriksson Martin M
The European journal of health economics : HEPAC : health economics in prevention and care 20190222 5
Although cost-effectiveness analysis has a long tradition of supporting healthcare decision-making in Sweden, there are no clear criteria for when an intervention is considered too expensive. In particular, the opportunity cost of healthcare resource use in terms of health forgone has not been investigated empirically. In this work, we therefore seek to estimate the marginal cost of a life year in Sweden's public healthcare sector using time series and panel data at the national and regional lev ...[more]