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How Robust Is the Health Utilities Index Mark 2 Utility Function?

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  • Qinan Wang

    (Division of Economics and Statistics, School of Accountancy and Business, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

  • William Furlong

    (Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis and the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and Health Utilities Inc.)

  • David Feeny

    (Institute of Health Economics, and the Faculty of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and Health Utilities Inc.)

  • George Torrance

    (McMaster University, Health Utilities Inc., and Innovus Research Inc.)

  • Ronald Barr

    (Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, and the Children’s Hospital of Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada)

Abstract

Purpose . The utility function for the Health Utilities Index Mark 2 (HUI2) system is based on preference measurements from a random sample of parents with exclusion of inconsistent respondents. Would results without exclusions or from a different group of parents have differed? Methods . Scores were obtained from parents of patients (n = 59) undergoing treatment for cancer. Mean scores from the 2 sets of parents were compared: parents of patients and parents from the general population. Three multiattribute utility functions were estimated. Mean scores for HUI2 states using the functions were compared. Results . Most differences in mean scores between different groups were not statistically significant (P

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  • Qinan Wang & William Furlong & David Feeny & George Torrance & Ronald Barr, 2002. "How Robust Is the Health Utilities Index Mark 2 Utility Function?," Medical Decision Making, , vol. 22(4), pages 350-358, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:medema:v:22:y:2002:i:4:p:350-358
    DOI: 10.1177/0272989X0202200413
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    1. W Furlong & D Feeny & G Torrance & C Goldsmith & S DePauw & Z Zhu & M Denton & M Boyle, 1998. "Multiplicative Multi-Attribute Utility Function for the Health Utilities Index Mark 3 (HUI3) System: A Technical Report," Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis Working Paper Series 1998-11, Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA), McMaster University, Hamilton, Canada.
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    1. David Feeny, 2012. "The Multi-attribute Utility Approach to Assessing Health-related Quality of Life," Chapters, in: Andrew M. Jones (ed.), The Elgar Companion to Health Economics, Second Edition, chapter 36, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    2. P. Wang & M. Li & G. Liu & J. Thumboo & N. Luo, 2015. "Do Chinese have similar health-state preferences? A comparison of mainland Chinese and Singaporean Chinese," The European Journal of Health Economics, Springer;Deutsche Gesellschaft für Gesundheitsökonomie (DGGÖ), vol. 16(8), pages 857-863, November.

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