The rand 36‐item health survey 1.0 Tập 2 Số 3 - Trang 217-227 - 1993
Ron D. Hays, Cathy D. Sherbourne, Rebecca Mazel
AbstractRecently, Ware and Sherbourne1 published a new short‐form health survey, the MOS 36‐Item Short‐Form Health Survey (SF‐36), consisting of 36 items included in long‐form measures developed for the Medical Outcomes Study. The SF‐36 taps eight health concepts: physical functioning, bodily pain, role limitations due to physical health proble...... hiện toàn bộ
Discrete choice experiments in health economics: a review of the literature Tập 21 Số 2 - Trang 145-172 - 2012
Esther W. de Bekker‐Grob, Mandy Ryan, Karen Gerard
SUMMARYDiscrete choice experiments (DCEs) have become a commonly used instrument in health economics. This paper updates a review of published papers between 1990 and 2000 for the years 2001–2008. Based on this previous review, and a number of other key review papers, focus is given to three issues: experimental design; estimation procedures; and validity of respon...... hiện toàn bộ
Estimating an EQ‐5D population value set: the case of Japan Tập 11 Số 4 - Trang 341-353 - 2002
Aki Tsuchiya, Shunya Ikeda, Naoki Ikegami, Shuzo Nishimura, Ikuro Sakai, Takashi Fukuda, Chisato Hamashima, Akinori Hisashige, Makoto Tamura
AbstractQuality adjustment weights for quality‐adjusted life years (QALYs) are available with the EQ‐5D Instrument, which are based on a survey that quantified the preferences of the British public. However, the extent to which this British value set is applicable to other, especially non‐European, countries is yet unclear. The objectives of this study are (a) to c...... hiện toàn bộ
The New Cooperative Medical Scheme in rural China: does more coverage mean more service and better health? Tập 18 Số S2 - 2009
Xiaoyan Lei, Wanchuan Lin
AbstractThis paper explores the impact of the New Cooperative Medical Scheme (NCMS), a newly adopted public health insurance program in rural China. Using a longitudinal sample drawn from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), we employed multiple estimation strategies (individual fixed‐effect models, instrumental variable estimation, and difference‐in‐diffe...... hiện toàn bộ
QALY maximisation and people's preferences: a methodological review of the literature Tập 14 Số 2 - Trang 197-208 - 2005
Paul Dolan, Rebecca Shaw, Aki Tsuchiya, Alan Williams
AbstractIn cost‐utility analysis, the numbers of quality‐adjusted life years (QALYs) gained are aggregated according to the sum‐ranking (or QALY maximisation) rule. This requires that the social value from health improvements is a simple product of gains in quality of life, length of life and the number of persons treated. The results from a systematic review of th...... hiện toàn bộ