Sentence examples for societal utility from inspiring English sources

In a dissent, Judge Ronald M. Gould said the "lack of any societal utility in tolerating false statements of military valor" justified the law.

Taking advantage of the properties of information and building on the perception of its individual and societal utility and value, this sector provides a broad range of information products and services.

Using this method, it is possible to assess societal utility measures and elicit individualized WTP values.

Health-related quality of life was expressed in either the European societal utility using EQ-5D-3L or the patient valuation using EQ-VAS.

Lloyd et al. (2005) [ 15] report societal utility values in metastatic NSCLC using health state descriptions of responding, stable (intravenous (IV) and oral treatment presented separately) disease, progressive disease and a state describing end of life.

The health status of the patient is then linked to a societal utility value, one aimed to be representative of the values of the population of a particular country, which is obtained via large valuation studies in the general population which attribute a utility value to each possible health state described by the questionnaire.

In the base case analysis, quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) will be estimated using societal utilities obtained using the Dutch EQ5D tariff [ 48].

The aim of this study was to elicit UK societal based utility values for different stages of NSCLC and different grade III-IV toxicities commonly associated with chemotherapy treatments.

We conducted a societal cost-utility analysis comparing a policy of routine genetic testing to no testing among children with permanent neonatal diabetes.

To test the hypothesis that genetic testing in some disorders can lead to dramatic health and cost benefits, we conducted a societal cost-utility analysis of a genetic testing policy for permanent neonatal diabetes.

One of the uses of the EQ-5D is to provide societal values (utilities) for health states generated by the instrument which can then be used in economic evaluations of health care interventions.