Background: Increasing use of the Quality-Adjusted Life-Year to inform resource allocation
decision-making has highlighted the importance of relating clinical and health-related …

Background: Walking impairment has a major influence on the quality of life of people with
multiple sclerosis (MS). The Multiple Sclerosis Walking Scale (MSWS-12) assesses the …

Background Increasingly, generic preference-based measures of health-related quality of
life (HRQOL) are used to estimate quality-adjusted life-years to inform resource allocation …

Background Health-related quality of life (HRQoL) has not been assessed in Australians
with multiple sclerosis (MS) using a preferentially sensitive multi-attribute utility instrument …

Objective In economic evaluation, health outcomes are commonly quantified using quality-
adjusted life-years (QALYs) derived from the preferences of a sample of the general …

Background Though many people with multiple sclerosis (MS) have comorbidities, the use
of generic and disease-specific health related quality of life (HRQOL) scales to discriminate …

Purpose The three most widely used utility measures are the Health Utilities Index Mark 2
and 3 (HUI2 and HUI3), the EuroQol-5D (EQ-5D) and the Short-Form-6D (SF-6D). In line …

abstract Objectives To estimate health state utility values (HSUVs) for multiple sclerosis (MS)
by key demographic and clinical characteristics. Methods Data from a UK prospective …

Abstract Objectives The 29-item Multiple Sclerosis Impact Scale (MSIS-29) is a
psychometrically validated patient-reported outcome measure increasingly used in trials of …

Background Condition-specific measures are frequently used to assess the health-related
quality of life of people with multiple sclerosis (MS). Such measures are unsuitable for use in …