simulation study using the dataset of the original UK valuation study, the number of health
states and respondents needed to estimate a reliable tariff. In all, 300 Dutch respondents
directly valued 17 states compared to 3000 respondents and 42 states in the original MVH
protocol. The results reaffirmed differences in health‐related preferences between countries,
justifying the estimation of national tariffs. The mean absolute error was 0.030. The design of …