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Making the rules make sense: valuation of constrained resources

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  1. As Professor Lindgren notes, there are better allocations than the ones considered in his scenarios. I have taken the liberty to reproduce the example with the initial allocation being the one that maximises health.

  2. In 2021, the average monthly salary of a nurse was SEK 39,500 [4] and the employer fee was 46.15% [5]. SEK 39,500 * 12 * 1.4615 = SEK 692,751.

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  2. Centre for Medical Technology Assessment (CMT), Department of Health, Medicine, and Caring Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden

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Siverskog, J. Making the rules make sense: valuation of constrained resources. Eur J Health Econ 24, 479–481 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10198-023-01576-9

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