Self-report measures of patient utility

Longitudinal screening and management of fatigue, pain, and emotional distress associated with cancer therapy

“…However, this trend may reflect how patients tend to weight these symptoms in their overall satisfaction. Alternately, overall treatment satisfaction/value ratings may be subject to the types of cognitive biases that influence utility ratings (e.g., may not solicit a thoughtful response) [14]. At the very least, our finding caution against the assumption that a question on overall quality of care accurately reflects patient's perceptions of the management of individual symptoms.…”

Rumination and Negative Symptoms in Schizophrenia

“…Third, the lack of a control group and a restricted patient sample, consisting of predominantly males in a long-term phase of their illness and with different subtypes of schizophrenia, may prevent any claim of specificity of the observed relationships to schizophrenia. Finally, the reliability of using subjective measures in schizophrenia has been questioned by some researchers (Hanita, 2000). This, however, may not be a serious limitation as there is evidence of a strong correlation between the BDI and the interview-based Calgary Depression Scale for schizophrenia (Birchwood et al, 2000); the latter has been found to be the best objective measure for the assessment of depression in schizophrenia (Kim et al, 2006;Muller et al, 2006).…”

Health-Related Quality of Life and Hearing Aids: A Tutorial

“…It has been argued that the classic techniques for measuring utility are sometimes problematic because the standard gamble and time tradeoff are susceptible to the effects of cognitive biases in patients and the visual analog scale is not a true preference-based measure (Hanita, 2000). An alternative approach is to ask individuals to use verbal descriptions of various health states to rate their level of functioning, with each descriptor associated with a different utility value.…”