How Robust Is the Health Utilities Index Mark 2 Utility Function?

Qinan Wang, William Furlong, David Feeny, George Torrance and Ronald Barr
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Qinan Wang: Division of Economics and Statistics, School of Accountancy and Business, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
William Furlong: Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis and the Department of Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, and Health Utilities Inc.
George Torrance: McMaster University, Health Utilities Inc., and Innovus Research Inc.
Ronald Barr: Department of Pediatrics, McMaster University, and the Children’s Hospital of Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada

Medical Decision Making, 2002, vol. 22, issue 4, 350-358

Abstract: Purpose . The utility function for the Health Utilities Index Mark 2 (HUI2) system is based on preference measurements from a random sample of parents with exclusion of inconsistent respondents. Would results without exclusions or from a different group of parents have differed? Methods . Scores were obtained from parents of patients (n = 59) undergoing treatment for cancer. Mean scores from the 2 sets of parents were compared: parents of patients and parents from the general population. Three multiattribute utility functions were estimated. Mean scores for HUI2 states using the functions were compared. Results . Most differences in mean scores between different groups were not statistically significant (P

Keywords: Health Utilities Index; multiattribute utility; utility; preferences; health-related quality of life; generalizability (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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DOI: 10.1177/0272989X0202200413

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