Dolan, Paul (1997) Modelling valuations for health states. Medical Care, 35 (11). pp. 1095-1108. ISSN 0025-7079
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OBJECTIVES: It has become increasingly common for preference-based measures of health-related quality of life to be used in the evaluation of different health-care interventions. For one such measure, The EuroQol, designed to be used for these purposes, it was necessary to derive a single index value for each of the 243 health states it generates. The problem was that it was virtually impossible to generate direct valuations for all of these states, and thus it was necessary to find a procedure that allows the valuations of all EuroQol states to be interpolated from direct valuations on a subset of these. METHODS: In a recent study, direct valuations were elicited for 42 EuroQol health states (using the time trade-off method) from a representative sample of the UK population. This article reports on the methodology that was adopted to build up a "tariff" of EuroQol values from this data. RESULTS: A parsimonious model that fits the data well was defined as one in which valuations were explained in terms of the level of severity associated with each dimension, an intercept associated with any move away from full health, and a term that picked up whether any dimension in the state was at its most severe level. CONCLUSIONS: The model presented in this article appears to predict the values of the states for which there are direct observations and, thus, can be used to interpolate values for the states for which no direct observations exist.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://journals.lww.com/lww-medicalcare/pages/defa... |
| Additional Information: | © 1997 Lippincott-Raven Publishers |
| Divisions: | Social Policy |
| Subjects: | R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Mar 2011 17:13 |
| Last Modified: | 11 Dec 2024 22:05 |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/33060 |
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