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Contingent valuation: what needs to be done? [PDF]

, 2010
Contingent valuation (CV) has been argued to have theoretical advantages over other approaches for benefit valuation used by health economists. Yet, in reality, the technique appears not to have realised these advantages when applied to health-care ...
Sach, TH, Sach, Tracey H., Smith, RD, Sach, Tracey H, Smith, Richard D, Smith, Richard D.   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Artificial Intelligence–Based Online Symptom Assessment Tools for Systemic Lupus Erythematosus Diagnosis: Patient Perspectives

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective The objective of this article is to identify perceptions of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) regarding artificial intelligence (AI)–based online symptom assessment tools, and the potential of these tools to address diagnostic barriers.
Olivia A. Stein, Jennifer L. F. Lee, Evelyne Vinet, Arielle Mendel, Christian A. Pineau, Fares Kalache, Louis‐Pierre Grenier, Sasha Bernatsky   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Willingness-to-pay and willingness-to-accept of informal caregivers of dependent elderly people in Shanghai, China

BMC Health Services Research, 2020
Background In order to make optimal long-term care-related decisions, it is important to take a societal perspective. Shanghai is one of the pilot cities of social long-term care insurance in China.
Wenwei Liu, Tongzhou Lyu, Xiaoyi Zhang, Suwei Yuan, Huimin Zhang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Development of a Disease Activity Index for the Assessment of VEXAS Syndrome (VEXAS‐DAI)

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Vacuoles, E1 enzyme, X‐linked, autoinflammatory, somatic syndrome (VEXAS) syndrome is characterized by a complex spectrum of inflammatory and hematologic manifestations. Clinical research to identify effective therapies is urgently needed but is hindered by the lack of validated outcome measures.
Kevin Byram, Heřman Mann, Danielle Hammond, Onima Chowdhury, Sinisa Savic, Yohei Kirino, Carmelo Gurnari, Maël Heiblig, Thibault Comont, Arsène Mekinian, Mrinal M. Patnaik, Lachelle D. Weeks, Gary Ho, Adam Al‐Hakim, Scott Goldberg, Marcela A. Ferrada, Sophie Georgin‐Lavialle, Peter C. Grayson, Emma M. Groarke, Bhavisha Patel, Megan Sullivan, Sarah A. Buckley, Bryan G. Harder, Raman Garcha, David B. Beck, Matthew J. Koster   +25 more
wiley   +1 more source

Choice experiments ed eterogeneità delle preferenze per i bacini ad uso plurimo: un’applicazione al lago di Montedoglio.

Aestimum, 2009
Choice experiments method has important advantages over other environmental valuation methods, such as contingent valuation. The most important one is the possibility to assess complex goods like multi-purpose lakes.
Lucia Rocchi
doaj   +1 more source

Caregiver Perspectives on the Burden of Disease and Treatment in Uncontrolled Gout

Arthritis Care &Research, EarlyView.
Objective Uncontrolled gout (UG) refers to persistently elevated serum urate (SU) levels >6 mg/dL and ongoing gout symptoms despite use of urate‐lowering therapy (ULT). The objective of this study was to evaluate the burden associated with informal caregiving for individuals with UG.
Angelo Gaffo, Bhavisha Desai, Abiola Oladapo, Nana Kragh, Rebekah Zincavage, Brad Padilla, Naomi Schlesinger   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Clinical Validation of Artificial Intelligence (AI)‐based Cartilage Segmentation Predicting Knee Replacement

Arthritis Care &Research, Accepted Article.
Objective For cartilage morphology to serve as a scalable endpoint in clinical trials, analyses should be performed automatically without human interaction. To clinically validate artificial intelligence (AI)‐based analysis, we studied cartilage loss from MRI prior to knee replacement.
Felix Eckstein, David J. Hunter, C. Kent Kwoh, Wolfgang Wirth   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

THE ASSESSMENT OF THE PUBLIC ACCEPTANCE OF THE IMPLEMENTATION OF INDIVIDUAL SEWAGE TREATMENT PLANTS IN ŚNIADOWO MUNICIPALITY

Economics and Environment, 2017
The aim of the article is to present the public perception of the implementation of an individual wastewater management system, i. e. the so-called household sewage treatment plants in Śniadowo municipality.
Krystyna Rauba, Aneta Brulińska
doaj  

Contingent Valuation Method and the beta model: an accounting economic vision for environmental damage in Atlântico Sul Shipyard

Revista Contabilidade & Finanças, 2018
The objective of this paper is to apply the beta model as an alternative to the Valuation Method in order to estimate the environmental asset Willingness to Pay (WTP) so that the Tribunal de Contas do Estado de Pernambuco (TCE/PE) can supervise the ...
Silvana Karina de Melo Travassos, José Carlos de Lacerda Leite, Jose Isidio de Freitas Costa   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Adaptive Foam 3D Printing of Ultralight and Multifunctional Materials

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Adaptive foam 3D printing, enabled by expandable microspheres, imparts cellular structures to thermoplastic and thermosetting polymers, manufactured through a variety of processes including fused filament fabrication, direct ink writing, digital light processing, and inkjet printing.
Nariman Rajabifar, Amir Ameli
wiley   +1 more source