Objective. Analysts performing cost-effectiveness analyses often do not have the resources
to gather original quality-of-life (QOL) weights. Furthermore, variability in QOL for the same …

Background: Many of the large ongoing national surveys of the US population contain a
question that asks for the respondent's self-reported health status:“excellent,”“very …

Background. Despite widespread use of generic health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL)
scores, few have publicly published nationally representative US values. Purpose. To create …

Objectives To find an alternative for quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) and equal value of life
(EVL) measures. Despite the importance of QALY in cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA) …

Purpose: This paper investigates the impact of quality‐of‐life adjustment on cost‐
effectiveness analyses, by comparing ratios from published studies that have reported both …

Objectives. The authors developed an" off-the-shelf" source of health-related quality of life
(HRQL) scores for cost-effectiveness analysts unable to collect primary data. Methods. The …

Health-related quality of life (HRQOL) is now widely recognized as one of the major health
outcome indices in clinical studies, health services research, and health policy formation …

For economic and policy analyses requiring a summary health outcome measure that
integrates quantity-of-life and quality-oflife impacts, the quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) has …

Purpose Our key objective is to identify the core domains of health-related quality of life
(QoL). Health-related QoL utility scales are commonly used in economic evaluations to …

Patient-reported outcomes are recognized as essential for the evaluation of medical and
public health interventions. Over the last 50 years, health-related quality of life (HRQoL) …