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Assessing Desirability of Outcome States
Author Biographies
Introduction
Common Health Status Measures
Preference-Based Measures
Direct Utility Elicitation
Issues with Utiliy Assessment
How are Utilities Used?
Utility and Health Status
Utility and Sociodemographic Factors
Computerized Utility Assessment
Catalogs of Utilities
Currently selected section: Case Studies
Conclusions

Chapter 24: Assessing Desirability of Outcome Stats: Case Studies
          

Which measure would you select?

You answered:

Selection DMedical Outcomes Study-HIV (MOS-HIV)

INCORRECT

Since you plan to do a cost-effectiveness analysis, you need a measure that can be used as a utility. This rules out the SIP and the MOS-HIV (and, of course, the MOS-HIV is specific to a certain disease while you want a broader measure). The SG would meet the need for a utility measure, but it is difficult to administer to large numbers of people and is not well-suited to a mailed survey. The EQ-5D has a simple format for respondents, and has been used successfully in a mailed survey.

 

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