The outcomes varied from specific measures, for example activity change or health events (falls), to generic measures, such as quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) or disability-adjusted life-years (DALYs).
This focus on specific measures detracts from the larger issue that performance varies substantially not only between, but also within hospitals [ 16].
Levy et al also reported a significant drop in the health preference values measured by a disease-specific measure from 0.68 in uncomplicated CHB infection to 0.38 in HCC patients and 0.35 in decompensated cirrhosis [ 38].
On the other hand, they provide data that address a narrower range of issues than generic instruments, and it is usually difficult or impossible to relate data from one disease-specific measure from another.
Not a bad set of priorities for the next election manifesto, though the specific measures he mentioned, from freezing energy bills to votes for 16-year-olds seemed to be a hotchpotch of ideas rather than a coherent new way to run the economy.
The specific measures were adapted from EPA [20] and OECD/ITF [45].
Information on specific measures was sought from the following sources (in order of priority): measure manuals, review papers, published papers (prioritizing the most recent), contact with the measure developer(s), other web-based sources.
Since anxiety and depressive disorders are a central focus of the program, the presence or absence of such disorders will be used as specific measures of outcome from the treatment, along with diagnostic status on other relevant diagnostic categories in the MINI.
To overcome this limitation, methods of estimating the utility values of preference based measures from disease specific measures have been developed.
