Exponential Health Utility: A Characterization and Comments on the Contribution by Happich and Mühlbacher

Lars Peter Østerdal

doi:10.1007/s10198-004-0255-0

Exponential Health Utility: A Characterization and Comments on the Contribution by Happich and Mühlbacher

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Abstract

In a recent contribution Happich and Mühlbacher proposed an axiom of constant absolute trade-off of life-years for health states, and studied the family of QALY models satisfying this axiom under expected utility and mutual utility independence between life-years and health states. Here we provide a complete characterization of the family of QALY models satisfying these conditions. This family should not be mistaken for the family of multiplicative exponential QALY models; in particular, it violates the zero condition

Original language	English
Journal	European Journal of Health Economics
Volume	5
Issue number	4
Pages (from-to)	365–367
ISSN	1618-7598
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-004-0255-0
Publication status	Published - 2004
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Constant absolute trade-off
Expected utility
Multiplicative exponential models
Quality-adjusted life-year

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