QALYs, HYEs and individual preferences— A graphical illustration

Holistic versus Composite Preferences for Lifetime Treatment Sequences for Type 2 Diabetes

“…The scenarios focused only on the drug treatments for hyperglycemia; the chronic complications of diabetes were not mentioned. The scenarios were reviewed for face validity by three family practitioners and one diabetologist and by 16 persons with type 2 diabetes who had been participants in two focus-group discussions about treat-ments for diabetes. Descriptions were provided in point form on 3&dquo; X 5&dquo; cards (see appendix A).…”

Holistic versus Composite Preferences for Lifetime Treatment Sequences for Type 2 Diabetes

“…The scenarios focused only on the drug treatments for hyperglycemia; the chronic complications of diabetes were not mentioned. The scenarios were reviewed for face validity by three family practitioners and one diabetologist and by 16 persons with type 2 diabetes who had been participants in two focus-group discussions about treat-ments for diabetes. Descriptions were provided in point form on 3&dquo; X 5&dquo; cards (see appendix A).…”

Overview and critique of judgement and decision making in health care: social and procedural dimensions

“…Secondly, decision analysis may be used to develop ways of determining resource allocations. In this regard, measures such as the QALY (Quality Adjusted Life years) and the HYE (Healthy years) have been proposed (Johannesson 1994;Gafni & Birch 1995). These approaches tend to use normative models and therefore may not be accurate representations of people's actual preferences (Kaplan et al 1993).…”

What difference does it make? The calculation of QALY gains from health profiles using patient and general population values

“…A possible disadvantage however relates to feasibility of the valuation task [5]. For example, it has been said that: "whether it is possible to empirically estimate such a measure is an issue for future research" [6].…”

Holistic versus Composite Preferences for Lifetime Treatment Sequences for Type 2 Diabetes

“…The scenarios focused only on the drug treatments for hyperglycemia; the chronic complications of diabetes were not mentioned. The scenarios were reviewed for face validity by three family practitioners and one diabetologist and by 16 persons with type 2 diabetes who had been participants in two focus-group discussions about treat-ments for diabetes. Descriptions were provided in point form on 3&dquo; X 5&dquo; cards (see appendix A).…”

Overview and critique of judgement and decision making in health care: social and procedural dimensions

“…Secondly, decision analysis may be used to develop ways of determining resource allocations. In this regard, measures such as the QALY (Quality Adjusted Life years) and the HYE (Healthy years) have been proposed (Johannesson 1994;Gafni & Birch 1995). These approaches tend to use normative models and therefore may not be accurate representations of people's actual preferences (Kaplan et al 1993).…”

What difference does it make? The calculation of QALY gains from health profiles using patient and general population values

“…A possible disadvantage however relates to feasibility of the valuation task [5]. For example, it has been said that: "whether it is possible to empirically estimate such a measure is an issue for future research" [6].…”

Holistic versus Composite Preferences for Lifetime Treatment Sequences for Type 2 Diabetes

“…The scenarios focused only on the drug treatments for hyperglycemia; the chronic complications of diabetes were not mentioned. The scenarios were reviewed for face validity by three family practitioners and one diabetologist and by 16 persons with type 2 diabetes who had been participants in two focus-group discussions about treat-ments for diabetes. Descriptions were provided in point form on 3&dquo; X 5&dquo; cards (see appendix A).…”

Overview and critique of judgement and decision making in health care: social and procedural dimensions

“…Secondly, decision analysis may be used to develop ways of determining resource allocations. In this regard, measures such as the QALY (Quality Adjusted Life years) and the HYE (Healthy years) have been proposed (Johannesson 1994;Gafni & Birch 1995). These approaches tend to use normative models and therefore may not be accurate representations of people's actual preferences (Kaplan et al 1993).…”

What difference does it make? The calculation of QALY gains from health profiles using patient and general population values

“…A possible disadvantage however relates to feasibility of the valuation task [5]. For example, it has been said that: "whether it is possible to empirically estimate such a measure is an issue for future research" [6].…”