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Both EQ-5D index scores were computed by regression analysis leading to a different valuation of the same health state.
The VAS valuation task was followed by the TTO valuation of the same set of EQ-5D states, except for state '11111' and 'dead'dead
Common warm- up tasks are TTO questions using different health states or valuation of the same health states using different valuation techniques (such as the visual analog scale, a ranking task, discrete choices or best-worse scaling) [ 41, 49, 50].
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Yet days earlier, as part of negotiations with Citigroup, Morgan Stanley placed a surprisingly low valuation on the same unit.
Being valuations of the same good, the two approaches should produce similar values.
A near-universal finding internationally is that patient valuations of their own health, represented using the EQ-5D system, are mostly higher than general population valuations of the same EQ-5D states.
Consistent with the international literature, injured people's valuations of their own health are mostly higher than the general population's hypothetical valuations of the same EQ-5D states for New Zealand.
Our finding that injured New Zealanders' valuations of their own health, represented using the EQ-5D system, are mostly higher than general population valuations of the same (hypothetical) states – with the notable exception of state 11111 (discussed below) – is consistent with the previous international research mentioned in the Introduction.
The main strength of this study is that, to the best of our knowledge, it is the first comparison of injured people's valuations of their own health, represented using the EQ-5D system, vis-à-vis general population valuations of the same EQ-5D states for New Zealand.
Consistent with the international literature, we find that injured people's VAS valuations of their own health, represented using the EQ-5D system, are mostly higher than the general population's hypothetical valuations of the same EQ-5D states for New Zealand.
For example, Johnson and colleagues [ 21] compared valuations of the same 42 EQ-5D health states for US and UK populations, and found US mean scores to be numerically higher than the UK for 39 of the health states, with an average increase in score of 0.10 (p < 0.001) for US-based estimates compared to UK estimates after adjusting for known predictors.
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