Green Book Health Discount Rate — r

One of a set of functions that can be passed to argument r in the calculate_dQALY function, that implement common discounting regimes. Passing r_health to calculate_dQALY means choosing to apply the NICE alternative discount rate/ Green Book recommended discount rate for health or life values of 1.5% when calculating QALY loss due to death.

Usage

r_health(x)

Arguments

x

[numeric]

Number of years into the future.

Value

[numeric]

Discount rate x years the future.

Details

See also functions r_none, r_default, r_lt_health, r_lt_health_reduced.

Examples

r_health(10)
#> [1] 0.015
r_health(50)
#> [1] 0.015
r_health(100)
#> [1] 0.015