SynthesisJournal of epidemiology2002
Utilities measured by rating scale, time trade-off, and standard gamble: review and reference for health care professionals.
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49 citing papers in PubMed, 6 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 142 citations in OpenAlex.
- Economic Evaluations of Childhood Hearing Loss Screening Programmes: A Systematic Review and Critique.Applied health economics and health policy · 2019Pooled it
- Health State Preference Weights for the Glasgow Outcome Scale Following Traumatic Brain Injury: A Systematic Review and Mapping Study.Value in health : the journal of the International Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research · 2017Pooled it
- Longitudinal and cross sectional assessments of health utility in adults with HIV/AIDS: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC health services research · 2015Pooled it
- Comorbid Influences on Generic Health-Related Quality of Life in COPD: A Systematic Review.PloS one · 2015Pooled it
- The estimation of utility weights in cost-utility analysis for mental disorders: a systematic review.PharmacoEconomics · 2013Pooled it
- Valuation of health states in the US study to establish disability weights: lessons from the literature.International journal of methods in psychiatric research · 2010Pooled it
- Parents of healthy children assign lower quality of life measure to scenarios labeled as cancer than to identical scenarios not labeled as cancer.BMC psychology · 2019Trial
- Exploring the impact of changes in neurogenic urinary incontinence frequency and condition-specific quality of life on preference-based outcomes.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2010Trial
- How should the impact of different presentations of treatment effects on patient choice be evaluated? A pilot randomized trial.PloS one · 2008Trial
- Health-state valuations for pertussis: methods for valuing short-term health states.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2005Trial
- Patients' perceptions of the value of current vision: assessment of preference values among patients with subfoveal choroidal neovascularization--The Submacular Surgery Trials Vision Preference Value Scale: SST Report No. 6.Archives of ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1960) · 2004Trial
- Assessment of the added value of a tubeless pump: A time trade-off (TTO) study for utility elicitation of insulin delivery systems in type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D).Diabetic medicine : a journal of the British Diabetic Association · 2025Article
- Determining the Severity of Benign Urologic Health States in Men Using Utilities Measures.Urology · 2025Article
- Estimating health state utilities in Duchenne muscular dystrophy using the health utilities index and EQ-5D-5L.Journal of patient-reported outcomes · 2023Article
- Psychometric properties and comparison of four health utility approaches among myopia patients in China.Health and quality of life outcomes · 2023Article
- The impact of living with transfeminine vocal gender dysphoria: Health utility outcomes assessment.International journal of transgender health · 2023Article
- Global Mapping of Interventions to Improve Quality of Life of Patients with Cancer: A Protocol for Literature Mining and Meta-Analysis.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Estimation of Utility Weights for Prostate-related Health States in Korea.Journal of preventive medicine and public health = Yebang Uihakhoe chi · 2022Article
- Challenges of Cost-Effectiveness Analyses of Novel Therapeutics for Inherited Retinal Diseases.American journal of ophthalmology · 2022Review
- Valuation of SF-6Dv2 Health States in China Using Time Trade-off and Discrete-Choice Experiment with a Duration Dimension.PharmacoEconomics · 2021Article
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Abstract
Utility is a simple expression of health-related quality of life in individuals with different states of health. A number of studies on utility measurements were conducted and published in the past. We retrieved 164 English-language articles which appeared in 1966 through 1999 for a systematic review. The number of reports has been increasing at an accelerating pace, especially during the past decade. The most widely used method of utility measurement was time trade-off, TTO (40%), followed by rating scale, RS (31%) and standard gamble, SG (29%). The utility of chronic health status was more frequently reported as compared with acute health status (907 vs 86). Accordingly, frequently explored clinical categories were cardiology, neurology, nephrology, and gastroenterology. Specifically, coronary heart disease (52 utilities), physical disability due to neurological diseases (45 utilities), chronic renal failure (74 utilities), and colorectal cancer (29 utilities) were subject to utility measurement. Mental or social dysfunctioning accounted for only a small proportion (48 utilities). There is a strong tendency for RS to yield the lowest and SG to yield the highest values. We compiled an extensive list of the results of studies on utility as a reference for health care professionals in this field.
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