Measuring health state utilities for cost utility analysis

... afford the costs of all health- care programs which claim to have some benefits, cost- utility analysis (CUA) which compares the costs of an intervention with its benefits, is increasingly used for ... approach is to define health states using standardized health- state classification systems A health- state classification system consists of a number of multilevel domains Each...

Ngày tải lên: 10/09/2015, 09:12

... twelve health state cards, including cards describing 'own health' and 'worst health' Health state utilities were obtained using the SG approach [29,30] In the SG task for each health state, ... small cell and non- small cell lung cancer University of Iowa Virtual Hospital; 1999 Hopwood P, Stephens RJ: Symptoms at presentation for treatment in patients with lung...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... full health The more an individual is willing to give up length of life in the health state, in exchange for full health, the less that health state is valued The value x/t is the utility [13] The ... estimating utilities for health states relating to severe chronic pain Their approach was to develop bespoke health states describing intensity of pain in nar...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... interpretation and manuscript revision HT was involved in study design, data organization, early data interpretation and manuscript revision All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements ... female gender, increasing time spent in jail and nonheterosexual identity (p ≤ 0.01 for all) The results of a multivariate model including medical conditions are shown in Tab...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... interpretation and manuscript revision HT was involved in study design, data organization, early data interpretation and manuscript revision All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements ... female gender, increasing time spent in jail and nonheterosexual identity (p ≤ 0.01 for all) The results of a multivariate model including medical conditions are shown in Tab...

Ngày tải lên: 18/06/2014, 19:20

... Mapping of the Insomnia Severity Index and Other Sleep Measures to EuroQol EQ-5D Health State Utilities Ning Y Gu,1 Marc F Botteman,1 Xiang Ji,1 Christopher F Bell,2 John ... Outcomes of Sleep Questionnaire [20], the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index [21], and the Insomnia Severity Index (ISI) [22] In addition to these instruments, insomnia s...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 15:20

... interpretation and manuscript revision HT was involved in study design, data organization, early data interpretation and manuscript revision All authors read and approved the final manuscript Acknowledgements ... female gender, increasing time spent in jail and nonheterosexual identity (p ≤ 0.01 for all) The results of a multivariate model including medical conditions are shown in Tab...

Ngày tải lên: 20/06/2014, 16:20

... mean cost of a stroke admission at £2642, with a mean length of stay of 11 days, and a daily cost of excess bed-days of £176 We therefore approximated the cost of an admission as: Cost of admission ... these analyses shows that they remain broadly balanced (the tables in additional files and show the baseline characteristics of patients included in analysis and...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... further investigate the factors influencing the application of CUA in their own countries; and (3) Singapore is among the most westernized of all the Asian countries, but at the same time maintains ... to include the impact from the perspective of the receiver Hence, the ECHO model of assessing outcomes in disease management has been gaining incre...

Ngày tải lên: 12/09/2015, 11:35

... results of OEEI were published in a guide and eight underlying reports A guide for the evaluation of infrastructural projects OEEI offers a guide for the evaluation of proposed infrastructural projects ... publication, titled Evaluation of infrastructural projects: guide for costbenefit analysis forms the main report of OEEI and is, to a large extent, based...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2015, 20:00

... DALY of a range of health interventions representing the situation in the health care sector at the time of study Before this study, there was only very limited and scattered information on the ... this paper is therefore to provide input into an analysis of identifying ways of improving the allocative efficiency of resource utilisation in the health...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 11:22

... efficiency of the current mix of interventions, but considers only the efficiency of small changes, usually increases, in resource use at the margin (i.e the starting point for analysis is the current ... highly informative in its own right, is not the end of the analytical process Rather, it represents a key input into the broader task of priority-setting For this...

Ngày tải lên: 13/08/2014, 13:20

... the Air Force Cost Analysis Agency and the Air Force cost analysis community want to formulate and implement a cost uncertainty analysis policy They asked RAND Project AIR FORCE to help Since formulating ... • • Air Force Aeronautical Systems Center, Cost Group Air Force Cost Analysis Agency Air Force Space and Missile Command, Cost Group Assistan...

Ngày tải lên: 17/02/2014, 22:20

... the Title XIX (Medical Assistance) Program, EPSDT Services for Children, EPSDT Child Welfare Services under Title IV of the Social Security Act, the Title V (Maternal and Child Health Block Grant) ... Division of Public Health of the Idaho Department of Health and Welfare Administrative oversight of the Maternal and Child Health Services Block Gr...

Ngày tải lên: 16/03/2014, 05:20

... parser partly depends on the output of the tagger and the rest of the preprocessing software Our way of dealing with how "correct" the performance of the parser is, follows a practical, pragmatic ... this information as well as grammatical functions in the output A corpus, annotated syntactically, is a rich source of information which we intend to use for a number of applica...

Ngày tải lên: 17/03/2014, 22:20