A5035248555- Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
- Healthcare Policy and Management
- Global Health Care Issues
- Childhood Cancer Survivors' Quality of Life
- Health disparities and outcomes
- Healthcare cost, quality, practices
- Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Delphi Technique in Research
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Chronic Disease Management Strategies
- Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Frailty in Older Adults
- Land Rights and Reforms
- Diabetes Management and Education
- Emergency and Acute Care Studies
- Meta-analysis and systematic reviews
- Patient Satisfaction in Healthcare
- Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia research
- Prenatal Screening and Diagnostics
- Family Support in Illness
- Asthma and respiratory diseases
- Hip and Femur Fractures
- Neonatal Respiratory Health Research
McMaster University
2015-2024
Policy Analysis (United States)
1989-2022
Hamilton Utilities Corporation
2020
The Centre for Health (New Zealand)
1989-2019
University of Toronto
2019
Impact
2019
Public Utilities Board
2006-2019
Université Laval
2018
Department of Health Research
2018
St. Joseph’s Healthcare Hamilton
2018
Utilities and quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) are reviewed, with particular focus on their use in technology assessment. This article provides a broad overview perspective these two techniques interrelationship, reference to other sources for details of implementation. The historical development, assumptions, strengths/weaknesses, applications each summarized. specifically designed individual decision-making under uncertainty, but, additional utilities can be aggregated across...
Journal Article Land Tenure and Property Rights: Theory Implications for Development Policy Get access Gershon Feder, Feder Search other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar David Feeny The World Bank Economic Review, Volume 5, Issue 1, January 1991, Pages 135–153, https://doi.org/10.1093/wber/5.1.135 Published: 01 1991
Background: A number of indexes measuring self-reported generic health-related quality-of-life (HRQoL) using preference-weighted scoring are used widely in population surveys and clinical studies the United States. Objective: To obtain age-by-gender norms for older adults on 6 HRQoL a cross-sectional US survey compare age-related trends HRQoL. Methods: The EuroQol EQ-5D, Health Utilities Index Mark 2, 3, SF-36v2™ (used to compute SF-6D), Quality Well-being Scale self-administered form,...
This study aimed to describe the self-reported health status of general adult U.S. population using 3 multi-attribute preference-based measures: EQ-5D, Health Utilities Index Mark 2 (HUI2), and (HUI3).We surveyed a probability sample with oversampling Hispanics non-Hispanic blacks. Respondents this home-visit survey self-completed EQ-5D HUI2/3 questionnaires. Overall index scores target selected subgroups were estimated construct validity these measures was assessed by testing priori...
Objective. To explore children's and parents' assessment of asthma. Design. Prospective 2-month cohort study in which children parents were reviewed at baseline 1-month intervals. Setting. Mid-sized, English-speaking, industrial community serving an urban regional rural population. Patients or Participants. Fifty-two children, 7 to 17 years old, with a wide range asthma severity, their parents. Interventions. We offered patients inadequately controlled additional inhaled steroid. Main...
The investigators evaluated the impact of recombinant human erythropoietin (r-HuEPO) therapy on healthrelated qualii lie (HRQL) in predialysis chronic renal disease patients with anemia.Eighty-three were entered into a randomized, parallel-group, open-label clinical trial follow-up evaluations over 48 weeks.Fortythree assigned to r-HuEPO treatment, and 40 an untreated control group.Hematocrit levels measured at baseline monthly.HRQL was assessed weeks l&32, 45.The HRQL assessment included...
To gain a complete picture of child's health-status, measurement health-related quality life (HRQL) is necessary. Since parents do not accurately perceive children's HRQL, information must be obtained from the children themselves. The aim this study was to determine minimum age and reading skills required by competently Paediatric Asthma Quality Life Questionnaire (PAQLQ), Health Utilities Index (HUI), Feeling Thermometer Standard Gamble, evaluate validity each for measuring HRQL in with...
Although a clear risk of mortality is associated with obesity, the overweight equivocal. The objective this study to estimate relationship between BMI and all-cause in nationally representative sample Canadian adults. A 11,326 respondents aged >or=25 1994/1995 National Population Health Survey (Canada) was studied using Cox proportional hazards models. significant increased over 12 years follow-up observed for underweight (BMI <18.5; relative (RR) = 1.73, P < 0.001) obesity class II+ >35; RR...
Background. The Health Utilities Index Mark 3 (HUI3) is a comprehensive, compact health status classification and state preference system. HUI3 system has been included in 4 Canadian population surveys numerous clinical trials. Objectives. To evaluate the construct validity of for measurement health-related quality life (HRQL) attribute-specific morbidity respondents to 1990 Ontario Survey reported have arthritis or stroke. authors assessed (1) whether those with stroke, arthritis, both...