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What Matters 2 Adults: a study protocol to develop a new preference-based wellbeing measure with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander adults (WM2Adults)

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, Kate Anderson, Joan Cunningham, Alan Cass, Julie Ratcliffe, Lisa J. Whop, Michelle Dickson, Rosalie Viney, Brendan Mulhern, Allison Tong, Gail Garvey   +10 more
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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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Assessing feasibility, construct validity, and reliability of a new aged care-specific preference-based quality of life instrument: evidence from older Australians in residential aged care

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, C Hutchinson, R Milte, J Cleland, A Muller, N Bowes, J Ratcliffe   +6 more
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Mapping Short Warwick and Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (SWEMWBS) to Recovering Quality of Life (ReQoL) to estimate health utilities

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
Background The Short Warwick and Edinburgh Mental Wellbeing Scale (SWEMWBS) is a widely used non-preference-based measure of mental health in the UK. The primary aim of this paper is to construct an algorithm to translate the SWEMWBS scores to utilities ...
Anju Devianee Keetharuth, Laura A. Gray, Ellen McGrane, Hannah Worboys, Giovany Orozco-Leal   +4 more
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Compatibility measurement-based group decision making with interval fuzzy preference relations

Journal of Algorithms & Computational Technology, 2017
In this paper, we put forward a ratio-based compatibility degree between any two ]0,1[-valued interval numbers to measure how proximate they approach to each other.
Xue-Yang Zhang, Zhou J Wang
doaj   +1 more source

Valuation of preference-based measures: can existing preference data be used to generate better estimates?

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2018
Background Experimental studies to develop valuations of health state descriptive systems like EQ-5D or SF-6D need to be conducted in different countries, because social and cultural differences are likely to lead to systematically different valuations ...
Samer A. Kharroubi
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Solid Pseudopapillary Neoplasm of the Pancreas in Children and Adolescents: Expert Recommendations

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Solid pseudopapillary neoplasm of the pancreas (SPN) is a rare low‐grade malignant exocrine pancreatic tumor, mostly discovered during the second decade of life in females, with a very good prognosis, provided microscopically complete surgical excision is achieved.
Sabine Irtan, Michael Abele, Calogero Virgone, Michaela Kuhlen, Ricardo Lopez‐Almarez, Tal Ben‐Ami, Ewa Bien, Maja Cesen, Malgorzata A. Krawczyk, Andrea Ferrari, Gianni Bisogno, Yves Reguerre, Dominik T. Schneider, Louise Galmiche, Jorg Fuchs, Sarah Braungart, Bilgehan Yalcin, Ines B. Brecht, Daniel Orbach   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Role of Condition-Specific Preference-Based Measures in Health Technology Assessment [PDF]

PharmacoEconomics, 2017
A condition-specific preference-based measure (CSPBM) is a measure of health-related quality of life (HRQOL) that is specific to a certain condition or disease and that can be used to obtain the quality adjustment weight of the quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) for use in economic models.
Rowen, D.L., Brazier, J., Ara, R., Azzabi Zouraq, I.   +3 more
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Ovarian Sex Cord Stromal Tumors in Children and Adolescents—The European Standard Clinical Practice Recommendations

Pediatric Blood &Cancer, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT As part of the European Cooperative Study Group for Paediatric Rare Tumours initiative, we developed standard clinical practice guidelines for ovarian sex cord stromal tumors, based on comprehensive national and international cohort analyses, literature review, and a final expert consensus conference.
Dominik T. Schneider, Kris‐Ann Schultz, Nora Schnitzler, Michael Abele, Tal Ben‐Ami, Ewa Bien, Gianni Bisogno, Ines B. Brecht, Maja Cesen, Andrea Ferrari, Michaela Kuhlen, Malgorzata A. Krawczyk, Ricardo Lopez‐Almaraz, Yves Reguerre, Calogero Virgone, Daniel Orbach   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bayesian nonparametric estimation of EQ-5D utilities for United States using the existing United Kingdom data

Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, 2017
Background Valuations of health state descriptors such as EQ-5D or SF6D have been conducted in different countries. There is a scope to make use of the results in one country as informative priors to help with the analysis of a study in another, for this
Samer A. Kharroubi
doaj   +1 more source