title: The reliability of willingness to pay for changes in health status.
abstract: One of the most common means to test for the temporal reliability of willingness-to-pay (WTP) values is the 'test-retest' method. However, few such tests have been conducted in healthcare, and the few that are focus on specific patient or professional groups, limiting their generalisability. In this article, a test-retest analysis of WTP for changes in health status from a general population sample found good reliability overall, with the level of reliability increasing with the overall amount of WTP and/or level of WTP as a proportion of income. The possible implications for the design and use of WTP studies in healthcare are outlined.
authors.affiliation: Health Economics Group-School of Medicine, Health Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK. Richard.Smith@uea.ac.uk
authors.forename: Richard D
authors.initials: RD
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000191:economics; D005260:Female; D005382:Financing, Personal; D006304:Health Status; D006801:Humans; D007407:Interviews as Topic; D008297:Male; D011788:Quality of Life; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014739:Victoria