Mapping oral health related quality of life to generic health state values
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Mapping oral health related quality of life to generic health state values
BACKGROUND A summary utility index is useful for deriving quality-adjusted life years (QALY) for cost analyses or disability weights for burden of disease studies. However, many quality of life instruments provide descriptive profiles rather than a single utility index. Transforming quality of life instruments to a utility index could extend the use of quality of life instruments to costs analy...
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عنوان ژورنال: BMC Health Services Research
سال: 2006
ISSN: 1472-6963
DOI: 10.1186/1472-6963-6-96