Sequence effects, health profiles, and the QALY model: In search of realistic modeling

Medical Decision Making

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 178-186

  Krabbe, Paul F M ^a   Bonsel, Gouke J ^b  

^a RADBOUD UNIVERSITY NIJMEGEN   (Netherlands)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Additive independence assumption; Health profiles; QALY model; QALY ples; Sequence effect; Time preference; Time tradeoff; Utility

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEDICAL DECISION MAKING; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 0031940703     PISSN: 0272989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0272989X9801800207     Document Type: Article

References (37)

1. Pliskin JS, Shepard DS, Weinstein MC. Utility functions for life years and health status. Operations Research. 1980;28:206-24.
2. Miyamoto JM, Eraker SA. Parameter estimates for a QALY utility model. Med Decis Making. 1985;5:191-213.
3. Neumann von J, Morgenstern O. Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1953.
4. Keeney RL, Raiffa H. Decision with multiple objectives: preferences and value tradeoffs. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1976.
5. Johannesson M, Jönsson B, Karlsson G. Outcome measurement in economic evaluation. Health Econ. 1996;5:279-96.
6. Broome J. QALYs. Journal of Public Economics. 1993;50:149-67.
7. Mehroz A, Gafni G. Quality-adjusted life years, utility theory, and healthy-years equivalents. Med Decis Making. 1989;9:142-9.
8. Bleichrodt H, Johannesson M. The validity of QALYs: an experimental test of constant proportional tradeoff and utility independence. Med Decis Making. 1997;17:21-32.
9. Loomes G, McKenzie L. The use of QALYs in health care decision making. Soc Sci Med. 1989;28:299-305.
10. Krabbe PFM, Essink-Bot ML, Bonsel GJ. The comparability and reliability of five health-state valuation methods. Soc Sci Med. 1997;45:1641-52.
11. Agt van HME, Essink-Bot ML, Krabbe PFM, Bonsel GJ. Tust-ratest reliability of health state valuations collected with the EuroQol questionnaire. Soc Sci Med. 1994;11:1537-44.
12. Mehrez A, Gafni A. Healthy-years equivalents versus quality-adjusted life years: in pursuit of progress. Med Decis Making. 1993;13:287-02.
13. Froberg DG, Kane KL. Methodology for measuring health-state preferences. IV: Progress and a research agenda. J Clin Epidermiol. 1989;42:675-85.
14. Anderson NH. How functional measurement can yield validated interval scales of mental quantities. J Appl Psychol. 1976;61:677-92.
15. Nord E. Methods for quality adjustment of life years. Soc Sci Med. 1992;34:559-69.
16. Froberg DG, Kane RL. Methodology for measuring health-state preferences. III: Population and context effects. J Clin Epidemiol. 1989;42:585-92.
17. Essink-Bot ML, Stouthard MEA, Bonsel GJ. Generalizability of valuations on health states collected with the EuroQol-quesrionnaire. Health Econ. 1993;2:237-46,
18. Torrance GW, Feeny D. Utilities and quality-adjusted life years. Int J Technol Assess Health Care. 1989;5:559-75.
19. Carr-Hill R. Assumptions of the QALY procedure. Soc Sci Med. 1989;29:469-77.
20. Smith A. Qualms about QALYs. Lancet. 1987;May 16:1134-6.
21. Gafni A. Time in health: can we measure individuals' "pure time preferences?" Med Decis Making. 1995;15:31-7.
22. Krabbe PFM, Essink-Bot ML, Bonsel GJ. On the equivalence of collectively and individually collected responses: standard gamble and time tradeoff judgments of health states. Med Decis Making. 1996;16:120-32.
23. Brooks R. EuroQol: the current state of play. Health Policy. 1996;37:53-72.
24. Hilden J, Glasziou PP, Habbema JDF. A pitfall in utility assessment - patients' undisclosed investment decisions. Med Decis Making. 1932;12:39-43.
25. Kassirer JP. Adding insult to injury: usurping patients' prerogatives. N Engl J Med. 1983;308:898-901.
26. Sutherland HJ, Llewellyn-Thomas H, Boyd NF, Till JE. Attitudes toward quality of survival: the concept of "maximal endurable time." Med Decis Making. 1982;2:299-309.
27. Gafni A, Torrance GW. Risk attitude and time preference in health. Management Science. 1984;30:440-51.
28. Richardson J. Cost utility analysis: what should be measured? Soc Sci Med. 1994;39:7-21.
29. Wakker P, Stiggelbout A. Explaining distortions in utility elicitation through the rank-dependent model for risky choices. Med Decis Making. 1995;15:180-6.
30. Richardson J, Hall J, Salkfeld G. Measurement of utility in multiphase health states. Int J Technol Assess Health Care. 1996;12:151-62.
31. Lipscomb J. Time preference for health in cost-effectiveness analysis. Med Care. 1989;27:S233-S253.
32. Loewenstein GF, Prelec D. Preferences for sequences of outcomes. Psychol Rev. 1993;100:91-108.
33. Kupperman M, Shiboski S, Feeny D, Elkin EP, Washington AE. Can preference scores for discrete states be used to derive preference scores for an entire path of events? An application of prenatal diagnosis. Med Decis Making. 1997;17:42-55.
34. Weinstein MC, Pliskin JS. HYEs: What are the issues? Med Decis Making. 1996;16:205-6.
35. Johannesson M. The ranking properties of healthy-years equivalents and quality-adjusted life-years under certainty and uncertainty. Int J Technol Assess Health Care. 1995;11:40-8.
36. Torrance GW. Measurement of health state utilities for economic appraisal: a review. J Health Econ. 1986;5:1-30.
37. Llewellyn-Thomas H, Sutherland HJ, Tibshirani R. The measurement of patients' values in medicine. Med Decis Making. 1982;2:449-62.