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The Measurement of Utility in Multiphase Health States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 March 2009

Jeffrey Richardson ,
Jane Hall  and
Glen Salkeld
Jeffrey Richardson
Affiliation:
Fairfield Hospital
Jane Hall
Affiliation:
University of Sidney
Glen Salkeld
Affiliation:
University of Sidney
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Abstract

To examine the validity of the additive quality-adjusted lite year model used to evaluate a multiphase health state, data from a pilot study of mammography were used to determine whether the values assigned to a multiphase postmastectomy health state could be estimated from a combination of the independently rated constituent health state values. The results suggest that they cannot.

Type
Research Notes
Information
International Journal of Technology Assessment in Health Care , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , Winter 1996 , pp. 151 - 162
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1996

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