Abstract Introduction Preference-weighted measures (PWMs)—also referred to as
preference-based measures in the literature—of health status/health-related quality of life …

Background As new diagnostic imaging technologies are adopted, decisions surrounding
diagnostic imaging become increasingly complex. As such, understanding patient …

Objective This study examined the inter-rater agreement between child-self and parental
proxy health-related quality of life (HRQoL) ratings (overall and domain level) using two …

Background Recent systematic reviews show varying methods for eliciting, modelling, and
reporting preference-based values for child health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL) outcomes …

Discrete choice experiments (DCEs) are becoming increasingly used to elicit preferences for
children's health states. However, DCE data need to be anchored to produce value sets, and …

The capability approach provides a broad evaluative space for making funding decisions for
health and care interventions, with capability wellbeing as the outcome of value. A range of …

Evaluating the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of treatments for children is essential to
support good healthcare decisions, yet the evidence on child health-related quality of life …

Preference weights are widely used to score generic health states into utility indexes for
estimation of quality adjusted life years (QALYs) and to aid health care funding decisions. To …

Valuing child health necessitates normative methodological decisions on whose
preferences should be elicited and who should be imagined as experiencing impaired …

Introduction Utility values offer a quantitative means to evaluate the impact of novel cancer
treatments on patients' quality of life (QoL). However, the multiple methods available for …