Establishing disability weights from pairwise comparisons for a US burden of disease study

International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 144-154

  Rehm, Jürgen ^a,b,c   Frick, Ulrich ^d,e  

^a CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL CARL GUSTAV CARUS   (Germany)

^d CARINTHIA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Austria)

^e UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL REGENSBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

DALYs; Disability weights; Pairwise comparison; Ranking; Valuation

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COST OF ILLNESS; DISABILITY; DISABLED PERSON; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; PAIN; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUALITY ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR; REPRODUCIBILITY; UNITED STATES;

COST OF ILLNESS; DISABILITY EVALUATION; DISABLED PERSONS; FATIGUE; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; MALE; PAIN; QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEARS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84879504102     PISSN: 10498931     EISSN: 15570657     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/mpr.1383     Document Type: Article

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