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Open AccessRole Preferences in Medical Decision Making: Relevance and Implications for Health Preference Research
Health preference research (HPR) is being increasingly conducted to better understand patient preferences for medical decisions. However, patients vary in their desire to play an active role in medical decisio...
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Current Practices for Accounting for Preference Heterogeneity in Health-Related Discrete Choice Experiments: A Systematic Review
Accounting for preference heterogeneity is a growing analytical practice in health-related discrete choice experiments (DCEs). As heterogeneity may be examined from different stakeholder perspectives with diff...
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Open AccessExploring the importance of controlling heteroskedasticity and heterogeneity in health valuation: a case study on Dutch EQ-5D-5L
Respondents in a health valuation study may have different sources of error (i.e., heteroskedasticity), tastes (differences in the relative effects of each attribute level), and scales (differences in the abso...
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QALYs for COVID-19: A Comparison of US EQ-5D-5L Value Sets
In economic evaluations, quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) can serve as a unit of measurement for disease burden. Obtaining QALY values for COVID-19 presents a challenge owing to the availability of two US E...
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Reporting Formative Qualitative Research to Support the Development of Quantitative Preference Study Protocols and Corresponding Survey Instruments: Guidelines for Authors and Reviewers
Formative qualitative research is foundational to the methodological development process of quantitative health preference research (HPR). Despite its ability to improve the validity of the quantitative eviden...
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Does Device or Connection Type Affect Health Preferences in Online Surveys?
Recent evidence has shown that online surveys can reliably collect preference data, which markedly decrease the cost of health preference studies and expand their representativeness. As the use of mobile techn...
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The Value Employees Place on Health Insurance Plans: A Discrete-Choice Experiment
The federally-facilitated Health Insurance Marketplace—also known as the Health Insurance Exchange—was designed as a tool to help people purchase insurance plans, yet many Americans remain uninsured, partially...
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Issues in the Design of Discrete Choice Experiments
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Assessing the Economic Value of Cancer Prevention
It is critically important to discuss and quantify the economic value of cancer prevention, so that resources can be properly allocated toward its activities. In cancer prevention, there ain’t such thing as a ...
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Examining the Association Between Maternal Smoking During Pregnancy and Child Behavior Problems Using Quality-Adjusted Life Years
Objectives Examining the association between maternal smoking and losses in childhood health-related quality of life due to behavior problems provides parents and policymakers another tool for the valuation of sm...
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Comparing and transforming PROMIS utility values to the EQ-5D
Summarizing patient-reported outcomes (PROs) on a quality-adjusted life year (QALY) scale is an essential component to any economic evaluation comparing alternative medical treatments. While multiple studies h...
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Further evidence on EQ-5D-5L preference inversion: a Brazil/U.S. collaboration
A preference inversion occurs when “worse” health (instead of “better” health) along a scale or score is preferred. Our aim was to confirm past findings of EQ-5D-5L preference inversions among English-speaking...
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Health Preference Research: An Overview
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Health Valuation: Demonstrating the Value of Health and Lifespan
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Unchained melody: revisiting the estimation of SF-6D values
In the original SF-6D valuation study, the analytical design inherited conventions that detrimentally affected its ability to predict values on a quality-adjusted life year (QALY) scale. Our objective is to es...
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Prevalence and Losses in Quality-Adjusted Life Years of Child Health Conditions: A Burden of Disease Analysis
Objectives To estimate the prevalence and losses in quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) associated with 20 child health conditions. Methods Using data from the 2009–2010 National Survey o...
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Do health preferences contradict ordering of EQ-5D labels?
The aim of this study was to test whether the ordering of item labels in EQ-5D instruments disagrees with the preferences of US adults.
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Assessing Human and Economic Benefits of Cancer Prevention
It is important to quantify the human and economic value of cancer prevention to illustrate the wisdom of executing behaviors and implementing policies that help avoid the many consequences of a cancer diagnos...
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Open AccessDevelopment of the patient approach and views toward healthcare communication (PAV-COM) measure among older adults
This study examines the psychometric properties of 9 items on the Patient Activation component of the Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey (MCBS) that assess how patients approach and communicate with their phy...
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Prevalence of Cancer Visits by Physician Specialty, 1997–2006
Understanding the prevalence of cancer-related visits by physician specialty may help target educational and quality improvement initiatives. Using the 1997–2006 National Ambulatory Medical Care Survey, adult ...
