Rescaling quality of life values from discrete choice experiments for use as QALYs: a cautionary tale
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Rescaling quality of life values from discrete choice experiments for use as QALYs: a cautionary tale
BACKGROUND Researchers are increasingly investigating the potential for ordinal tasks such as ranking and discrete choice experiments to estimate QALY health state values. However, the assumptions of random utility theory, which underpin the statistical models used to provide these estimates, have received insufficient attention. In particular, the assumptions made about the decisions between l...
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عنوان ژورنال: Population Health Metrics
سال: 2008
ISSN: 1478-7954
DOI: 10.1186/1478-7954-6-6