An assessment of economic measures used in menorrhagia: A systematic review

Sabina Sanghera, Emma Frew (), Joe Kai, Janesh Gupta and Tracy Elizabeth Roberts

Social Science & Medicine, 2013, vol. 98, issue C, 149-153

Abstract: ‘Menorrhagia’, or heavy menstrual bleeding, is a common problem affecting women. The principal driver for treatment is women's experience of its interference in their lives, so a measure of quality of life (QoL) is increasingly used as the primary outcome to assess treatment success. QoL measures need to accurately reflect women's concerns as these measures are often used to inform resource allocation decisions within the healthcare service. Healthcare decision-makers often advocate the use of generic measures so as to achieve consistency when making decisions. Generic measures, by definition, have a broad focus on QoL in contrast to disease-specific measures that focus on dimensions of health relevant to the condition. We report a systematic review of studies that have either used or assessed economic outcome measures in menorrhagia, and present criteria for assessing which measure is the most appropriate. Studies including women presenting with menorrhagia, and using or assessing economic measures were sought by searching nine electronic databases.

Keywords: Quality of life; Utility; Outcome measures; Menorrhagia; Heavy menstrual bleeding (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1016/j.socscimed.2013.09.016

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