The Health Utilities Index 1 the Health Utilities Index
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The Health Utilities Index (HUI) system is a generic, preference-based measure of health status intended for use in clinical outcomes measurement, in health surveys, in program planning and resource allocation. The utility scores provide a summary index of health-related quality of life on a zero to 1.0 scale; they may be used in cost-utility analyses to calculate quality-adjusted life years and in population studies as quality weights for calculating quality-adjusted life expectancy (1, p250).
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