Background: Variations in health state utilities can impact cost-effectiveness analyses. One
potential source of error is when joint health state (JS) utilities are rated higher than the …

Background. Cost-effectiveness analyses measure quality of life by associating utilities with
specific health states. Utilities are often defined by single health states, such as incontinence …

Background: Patients diagnosed with localized prostate cancer face several treatment
options. Patient preferences for treatment side effects often dominate the decision making …

Purpose To examine the agreement between prostate cancer patients' utilities for selected
health states and their rankings of the importance of six attributes of the health states and the …

Background. Conjoint analysis is widely used in studies of consumer preference but has
only recently been applied to measure patient utilities for health outcomes. We compared …

Purpose. To assess utilities of composite health states for dependence in activities of daily
living (ADLs) for invariance (ie, when subjects provide a utility of 1 for all health states) and …

Objective. The objective of this study was to evaluate the convergent validity of 3 types of
utility measures: standard gamble, time tradeoff, and rating scale. Research Design. A …

Background. Health-related quality of life is a key issue in prostate cancer (PC)
management. The authors summarized published utilities for common health-related quality …

Objective To develop a statistical model generating utility estimates for prostate cancer
specific health states, using preference weights derived from the perspectives of prostate …

A fundamental assumption of utility-based analyses is that patient utilities for health states
can be measured on an equal-interval scale. This assumption, however, has not been …