Modelling health state preference data using fixed and random effects models

• Author(s): Ferreira, Lara N. ; Ferreira, Pedro L. ; Pereira, Luis Nobre
• Date: 2007
• Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/904
• Origin: Sapientia - Universidade do Algarve
• Subject(s): Health state preferences; Health state utilities; SF-6D
• Document Type: Conference Object
• Language: English

Description

The use of preference-based measures of health in the measurement of Health Related Quality of Life has become widely used in health economics. Hence, the development of preference-based measures of health has been a major concern for researchers throughout the world. This study aims to model health state preference data using a new preference-based measure of health (the SF- 6D) and to suggest alternative models for predicting health state utilities using fixed and random effects models. It also seeks to investigate the problems found in the SF-6D and to suggest eventual changes to it.