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Discounting Health Outcomes in Economic Evaluation: The Ongoing Debate

2004; Elsevier BV; Volume: 7; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1111/j.1524-4733.2004.74002.x

1524-4733

Johan L. Severens, Richard J. Milne,

Healthcare Policy and Management

Discounting is a mathematical procedure for adjust-ing future costs and outcomes of health-care inter-ventions to “present value”; essentially this meansadjusting for differences in the timing of costs(expenditure) compared to health benefits (out-comes). Calculations for discounting are straight-forward: for each year (