background & purpose: in the health sector, in addition to the important consequence of treatment, health system should meet the expectations regarding the desirability of services. expectations and perceptions of patients about the desirability of services play an important role in selecting hospitals, their loyalty to the organization & replanning to purchase. thus the present study has been ...

BACKGROUND The use of the EQ-5D to asses the economic benefits of health technologies has led to questions about the cross-population transferability of preference weights to calculate health utility scores. The aim of this study is to investigate whether the use of UK and Canadian preference weights will lead to the calculation of different health utility scores in a sample of persons with Alz...

BACKGROUND To estimate utility values for different levels of migraine pain severity from a United Kingdom (UK) sample of migraineurs. METHODS One hundred and six migraineurs completed the EQ-5D to evaluate their health status for mild, moderate and severe levels of migraine pain severity for a recent migraine attack, and for current health defined as health status within seven days post-migr...

BACKGROUND A cost-utility study of a human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine requires that the utility weights for HPV-related health states (i.e., cervical intraepithelial neoplasia (CIN), cervical cancer, and condyloma) be evaluated. The aim of the present study was to determine the utility weights for HPV-related health states. METHODS Hypothetical standardised health states related to HPV wer...

We estimate the parameters of a dynamic multi-period model where parents with one child periodically decide whether their child uses mental health services. In this model, parents receive utility from household consumption and from their child’s mental health. Mental health services may improve the child’s mental health but may be costly in terms of reduced household consumption and direct disu...

Health-related utility is a quantitative expression of individuals’ or societies’ preference for a particular state of health under the condition of uncertainty [1]. It is typically assessed on a scale of which 0 represents a state of being dead, and 1 represents full health. In cost-effectiveness analysis or clinical decision analysis, utility is commonly used to compute quality-adjusted survi...

Cost-utility models are increasingly used in many countries to establish whether the cost of a new intervention can be justified in terms of health benefits. Health-state utility (HSU) estimates (the preference for a given state of health on a cardinal scale where 0 represents dead and 1 represents full health) are typically among the most important and uncertain data inputs in cost-utility mod...

Objectives: To measure the utility of patients with ureteral stones under various medical regimes and to identify significant factors affecting utility for various health states. Methods: A cross-sectional survey was conducted to measure the utility of 89 patients on each health state related to the clinical management of ureteral stones. Health states with respect to intervention and treatment...