This paper will consider the arguments for using preference-based CSMs in economic evaluation and the different ways in which this could be done. This paper will consider three arguments for using CSMs: 1) popularity with clinicians, 2) greater sensitivity to the consequences of the condition...

Background: The quality-adjusted life year (QALY) is typically used in economic evaluation among health care interventions, which relies on some generic preference-based measures of health, such as EQ-5D, HUI and SF-6D etc. However, it has been widely assumed that those generic preference-based...