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Calculating Utility Decrements Associated With an...

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Calculating Utility Decrements Associated With an Adverse Event

Abstract

Background: When calculating the decreases in health utility associated with adverse events, often a number ofrespondents achieve the upper utility bound of 1. “Marginal” Tobit or CLAD coefficients have been used to account for this. These are calculated by using a Tobit or a CLAD model to estimate the decrease in a latent unbounded variable associated with the event or condition, then to multiply by the proportion of respondents falling below …

Authors

Pullenayegum EM; Tarride J-E; Xie F; O’Reilly D

Journal

Medical Decision Making, Vol. 31, No. 6, pp. 790–799

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Publication Date

11 2011

DOI

10.1177/0272989x10393284

ISSN

0272-989X

Associated Experts

Daria O'Reilly

Assistant Clinical Professor (Adjunct), Faculty of Health Sciences

Feng Xie

Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences

Jean-Eric Tarride

Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences

Labels

Medical Subject Headings (MeSH)

Humans Models, Theoretical Quality of Life

Fields of Research (FoR)

3801 Applied economics 4203 Health services and systems 4206 Public health

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