A linear index for predicting joint health-states utilities from single health-states utilities

Health Economics

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 403-419

  Basu, Anirban ^a   Dale, William ^b   Elstein, Arthur ^c   Meltzer, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Joint health states; Prostate cancer; Quality of life; Utilities

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ANALYTICAL PARAMETERS; ARTICLE; COMORBIDITY; HEALTH CARE UTILIZATION; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; IMPOTENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROSTATE CANCER; PUBLIC HEALTH PROBLEM; PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE; QUALITY OF LIFE; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES;

AGED; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, ECONOMETRIC; PROSTATIC NEOPLASMS; QUALITY OF LIFE; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS;

EID: 67149134767     PISSN: 10579230     EISSN: 10991050     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hec.1373     Document Type: Article

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