Background For cost-utility analysis, analysts need a measure that summarizes health-status utilities in a single index of health-related quality of life (HR-QOL). It is common to find in clinical studies that only an HR-QOL profile measure such as the SF-36 is included, but not the summary...

Social valuations for health states are potentially useful both in clinical decision-making and in health-resource allocation, but there is some evidence that the experience of illness may affect such valuations. This article compares valuations of hypothetical health states obtained from a...

Background: The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Lung (FACT-L) is a multidimensional measure of quality of life developed for use in the evaluation of interventions in lung cancer. Objective: To develop a set of utility weights that could be used to convert FACT-L into a single index...