Sentence examples for for utility measures from inspiring English sources
The BB distribution is often used in probabilistic sensitivity analyses (PSA) in health economic modelling for utility measures such as the EQ-5D-3L [ 37].
Thavorncharoensap et al 24 estimated WTP per QALY in 2008 by using a bidding game technique for WTP measures and using TTO and VAS for utility measures in moving from various health conditions, including blindness, paralysis and allergy for 5 years as hypothetical scenarios to current health state.
VAS accounted for the majority of utility measures (100 times, 45.9%), while HUI2 was only used in 1 measure (0.5%).> -wrap-foot> *Data were reported for patients at various disease stage categories.
As a further check that our search strategy had not missed important studies, we searched PubMed (using the strings shown in table 3) for studies mentioning all utility/preference ratings in four conditions for which utility measures are commonly made: asthma, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis, and stroke.
We used an additive model for the utility measures (17).
In these reviewed papers, sampling variation was handled by reporting p-values and CIs for the utility measures.
For both utility measures, we assessed their practicality (completion rate), construct validity (ability to discriminate between baseline WOMAC severity levels), and responsiveness (ability to discriminate between three groups: those whose total WOMAC score, i) did not improve, ii) improved by <20%, and iii) improved by ≥20%).
4 See Appendix "Robust representations for dynamic monetary utility measures" for the definition of minimal penalty functions, up to a sign, and for the corresponding robust representations.
However, in this paper we only use robust representations for dynamic monetary utility measures for random variables, and that is why our discussion here is limited to this case.
Robust representations have been studied for general dynamic LM-measures, not only for dynamic monetary utility measures.
The MIDs for these two utility measures slightly differed in their absolute magnitudes and by direction of change.
