David Feeny, William Furlong, Michael Boyle, George W. Torrance
In this article, multi-attribute approaches to the assessment of health status are reviewed with a special focus on 2 recently developed systems, the Health Utilities Index (HUI) Mark II and Mark III systems. The Mark II system consists of 7 attributes: sensation, mobility, emotion, cognition, self-care, pain and fertility. The Mark III system contains 8 attributes: vision, hearing, speech. ambula...... hiện toàn bộ
The aim of this study was to test the feasibility of estimating preference weights for all health states defined by the Child Health Utility 9D (CHU9D), a new generic measure of health-related quality of life for children aged 7–11 years. The estimation of preference weights will allow the calculation of QALYs for use in paediatric economic evaluation. Valuation interviews were undertaken with 300...... hiện toàn bộ