Evidence of range bias in contingent valuation payment scales.

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Abstract:: The payment scale format has been widely used in willingness-to-pay studies in health care. Concerns have been expressed that the format is, in theory, prone to range bias, although this proposition has not been tested directly. We report the findings of a contingent valuation questionnaire study of colorectal cancer screening, wherein different subjects were provided with payment scales of two different lengths. Whilst the long-scale instrument included scale values up to pound 1000, the sho...
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University of Oxford

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MSD

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Nuffield Department of Population Health

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Population Health

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Language:: English
Keywords:: Income

Financing, Personal

Colorectal Neoplasms

Middle Aged

Aged

Great Britain

Health Services Research

Questionnaires

Mass Screening

Humans

Health Expenditures

State Medicine
Pubs id:: pubs:162703
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Local pid:: pubs:162703
Source identifiers:: 162703
Deposit date:: 2012-12-19

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