Double discounting of QALYs

Linda D MacKeigan1, Amiram Gafni, Bernie J O'Brien

  • 1Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada. l.mackeigan@utoronto.ca

Health Economics
|February 4, 2003
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