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Article de Périodique
Multiattribute utility function for a comprehensive health status classification system. Health Utilities Index Mark 2 (1996)
Auteur(s) :
TORRANCE, G. W. ;
FEENY D. H. ;
FURLONG, W. J. ;
BARR, R. D. ;
ZHANG, Y. ;
WANG, Q.
Année
1996
Page(s) :
702-722
Langue(s) :
Anglais
Refs biblio. :
55
Domaine :
Hors addiction / No addiction
Discipline :
SAN (Santé publique / Public health)
Résumé :
The Health Utilities Index Mark 2 (HUI:2) is a generic multiattribute, preference-based system for assessing health-related quality of life. Health Utilities Index Mark 2 consists of two components: a seven-attribute health status classification system and a scoring formula. The seven attributes are sensation, mobility, emotion, cognition, self-care, pain, and fertility. A random sample of general population parents were interviewed to determine cardinal preferences for the health states in the system. The health states were defined as lasting for a 60-year lifetime, starting at age 10. Values were measured using visual analogue scaling. Utilities were measured using a standard gamble technique. A scoring formula is provided, based on a multiplicative multiattribute utility function from the responses of 194 subjects. The utility scores are death-anchored (death = 0.0) and form an interval scale. Health Utilities Index Mark 2 and its utility scores can be useful to other researchers in a wide variety of settings who wish to document health status and assign preference scores. (Author' s abstract)
Affiliation :
Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Cote :
A03032