Sentence examples for related utility from inspiring English sources
The dental industry is made up of the "latent treatment requirement" which is defined as a condition that accrues over time thus lowering the health related utility of an individual, although no treatment has yet been given.
Time trade off (TTO) is an accepted method to elicit health related utility values for different health states.
The measurement of health related utility in patients with depression has been very limited and the comparison of different instruments within this patient population is almost non-existent.
The EuroQOL (EQ-5D) 5 L is a generic health related utility instrument with five dimensions (mobility, self-care, usual activities, pain/discomfort, and anxiety/depression) and general health status.
According to the criteria of sensitivity, responsiveness and acceptability that we applied, the SF-6D and SF-12 may be more suitable for the measurement of health related utility in a depressed population than the EQ-5D-3L, whish is the instrument currently recommended by NICE.
When the algorithm for an identifier's derivation and/or a related utility tool becomes publicly available, anyone has the ability to produce the identifier for a given structure.
For health economic evaluation health related utilities are the preferred method of measuring health related quality of life with values ranging from less than zero to 1, where zero represents death and 1 represents best possible health.
Costs and dose equivalence ratios were assumed to be lognormal distributed, binomial distributions were adopted for treatment response probabilities, normal distributions for relative risks and mortality rate of dialysis patients and beta distributions for health related utilities.
1 In clinical praxis there are different ways to elicit health related utilities.
Main outcome measure Costs (from the healthcare provider's perspective), health related utilities, and incremental cost effectiveness ratios.
For this analysis, those parameters were fracture treatment costs, fracture related utilities, and drug efficacies in reducing fractures.
