Green Book Long Term Health Discount Rate

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_lt_health to calculate_dQALY means choosing to apply the Green Book recommended declining long term discount rate for health or life values when calculating QALY loss due to death.

Usage

r_lt_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_health, r_lt_health_reduced.

Examples

r_lt_health(10)
#> [1] 0.015
r_lt_health(50)
#> [1] 0.0129
r_lt_health(100)
#> [1] 0.0107