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where we normalize the mean utility of the outside good to zero (V 0=0).
Ability metrics Mean utility of questions (MUQuestions): gauges how the community perceived the quality of the user's questions.
Mean utility of comments (MUComments): which evaluates how useful the community finds the comments a user makes in questions that were created by other users.
Mean utility of answers (MUAnswers): measures the ability of the user in answering a question compared to that of competing answerers.
This gives us the second diagram of Figure 2 (Figure 2 location rank with & without heterogeneity) in which the utility distributions of different locations never intersect and the mean utility of each location is unambiguously ranked.
The mean utility of 0.450 is exceptionally low; it is lower than in patients with comparable symptoms in CIC [10] and even lower than the majority of EQ-5D-3 L estimates in patients with advanced cancer, a condition that we would have expected to be much more severe [15].
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It is feasible to adjust foreign mean utilities of the EQ-5D-3L to make them reflect national preferences for health.
If foreign mean utilities of the EQ-5D-3L identhroughthrough a literature review could be adjusted to increase their transferability, more utility data could be considered relevant and pooled.
The implication of the method presented in this study is that mean utilities of the EQ-5D-3L obtained from international studies could easily be adjusted to increase their transferability to a national setting.
The present study aimed to develop a method for adjusting mean utilities of the 3 level version of the EQ-5D (EQ-5D-3L) to increase their transferability from one country to another.
Using the Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) Pain Severity score (which ranges from 0-10) to categorise pain as either 'mild' (1-3), moderate (4-6) or severe (7-10), Mc Dermott and colleagues calculated mean utilities of 0.67, 0.46 and 0.16, respectively.
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