Journal article
The utility of different health states as perceived by the general public
Abstract
A series of ‘scenarios’ describing the physical, social and emotional characteristics, limitations and duration of different health states have been successfully applied to a random sample of the general public in order to determine their social utility. The resulting mean daily health state utilities differ among disorders and vary with age, the duration of the disorder, the ‘label’ used to describe the disorder and the health status of the …
Authors
Sackett DL; Torrance GW
Journal
Journal of Clinical Epidemiology, Vol. 31, No. 11, pp. 697–704
Publisher
Elsevier
Publication Date
January 1978
DOI
10.1016/0021-9681(78)90072-3
ISSN
0895-4356