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Common Scale Valuations across Different Preference-Based Measures [PDF]
Medical Decision Making, 2013 Background. Different preference-based measures (PBMs) used to estimate quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) provide different utility values for the same patient. Differences are expected since values have been obtained using different samples, valuation techniques, and descriptive systems.
Hernandez, Monica +3 more
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What Tinnitus Therapy Outcome Measures Are Important for Patients?– A Discrete Choice Experiment
Frontiers in Neurology, 2021 Introduction: The therapeutic rationale varies among tinnitus therapies. A recent study identified which outcome measures should be used for different types of interventions.
Maaike M. Rademaker +10 more
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Complexity, 2018 In the era of big data, social network has become an important reflection of human communications and interactions on the Internet. Identifying the influential spreaders in networks plays a crucial role in various areas, such as disease outbreak, virus ...
Chengying Mao, Weisong Xiao
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Should Linking Replace Regression When Mapping from Profile-Based Measures to Preference-Based Measures? [PDF]
Value in Health, 2014 Profile instruments are frequently used to assess health-related quality of life and other patient-reported outcomes. However, preference-based measures are required for health-economic cost-utility evaluations.Although regression-based approaches are commonly used to map from profile measures to preference measures, we show that this results in biased
Fayers, Peter M, Hays, Ron D
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BMC Public Health, 2020 Background Understandings of health and wellbeing are culturally bound. Many Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people perceive wellbeing and quality of life (QOL) differently from the Western biomedical models of health underpinning existing QOL ...
Kirsten Howard +10 more
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Preference stability along time: the time cohesiveness measure [PDF]
, 2017 This work introduces a non-traditional perspective about the problem of measuring the stability of agents’ preferences. Specifically, the cohesiveness of preferences at different moments of time is explored under the assumption of considering dichotomous
Andrés Calle, Rocío de +2 more
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Development of the SF-6Dv2 health utility survey: comprehensibility and patient preference
Journal of Patient-Reported Outcomes, 2022 Background The SF-6Dv2 classification system assesses health states in six domains—physical functioning, role function, bodily pain, vitality, social functioning, and mental health. Scores have previously been derived from the SF-36v2® Health Survey.
Lynne Broderick +6 more
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Mapping between the Roland Morris Questionnaire and Generic Preference-Based Measures [PDF]
Value in Health, 2014 The Roland Morris Questionnaire (RMQ) is a widely used health status measure for low back pain (LBP). It is not preference-based, and there are currently no established algorithms for mapping between the RMQ and preference-based health-related quality-of-life measures.
Khan, K, Madan, J, Petrou, S, Lamb, S
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Dynamic fuzzy multiple criteria decision making for performance evaluation
Technological and Economic Development of Economy, 2015 The paper proposes a dynamic fuzzy multiple criteria decision making (DFMCDM) method. The method considers the integrated weight of the decision makers with the subjective and objective preference and the effect of time weight.
Guangxu Li, Gang Kou, Yi Peng
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Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2022 Background Quality of Life-Aged Care Consumers (QOL-ACC) is a new older-person-specific quality of life instrument designed for application in quality assessment and economic evaluation in aged care. The QOL-ACC was designed from its inception with older
J Khadka +6 more
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