Should We Consider Including a Value for “Hope” as an Additional Benefit Within Health Technology Assessment? [Editor's Choice]

Sep 1, 2022, 00:00
10.1016/j.jval.2022.03.006
https://www.valueinhealthjournal.com/article/S1098-3015(22)00148-6/fulltext
Title : Should We Consider Including a Value for “Hope” as an Additional Benefit Within Health Technology Assessment? [Editor's Choice]
Citation : https://www.valueinhealthjournal.com/action/showCitFormats?pii=S1098-3015(22)00148-6&doi=10.1016/j.jval.2022.03.006
First page : 1619
Section Title : POLICY PERSPECTIVE
Open access? : No
Section Order : 18

Health technology assessment (HTA) typically uses average health-related quality of life gain as its main measure of benefit used in economic evaluation. Nevertheless, there have been calls to consider novel aspects of benefit including the “value of hope,” defined as a patients’ potential preferences for a wider distribution of treatment benefit with a positive skew, in the hope that they will be one of the lucky ones.

Categories :
  • Decision & Deliberative Processes
  • Health Technology Assessment
  • Value Frameworks & Dossier Format
Tags :
  • cost-effectiveness analysis
  • health technology assessment
  • risk-seeking preferences in survival
  • value assessment
  • value of hope
Regions :
  • Global
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