[Valuation of health-related quality of life and utilities in health economics]

Wolfgang Greiner; Kristina Klose

doi:10.1016/j.zefq.2014.02.004

[Valuation of health-related quality of life and utilities in health economics]

Z Evid Fortbild Qual Gesundhwes. 2014;108(2-3):120-5. doi: 10.1016/j.zefq.2014.02.004. Epub 2014 Apr 2.

[Article in German]

Authors

Wolfgang Greiner¹, Kristina Klose²

Affiliations

¹ Universität Bielefeld, Fakultät für Gesundheitswissenschaften, Gesundheitsökonomie und Gesundheitsmanagement (AG 5), Bielefeld. Electronic address: wolfgang.greiner@uni-bielefeld.de.
² Universität Bielefeld, Fakultät für Gesundheitswissenschaften, Gesundheitsökonomie und Gesundheitsmanagement (AG 5), Bielefeld.

PMID: 24780709
DOI: 10.1016/j.zefq.2014.02.004

Abstract

Measuring health-related quality of life is an important aspect in economic evaluation of health programmes. The development of utility-based (preference-based) measures is advanced by the discipline of health economics. Different preference measures are applied for valuing health states to produce a weighted health state index. Those preference weights should be derived from a general population sample in case of resource allocation on a collective level (as in current valuation studies of the EuroQol group).

Keywords: Gesundheitsbezogene Lebensqualität; Gesundheitsökonomie; Health-related quality of life; Lebensqualitätsbewertung; Nutzwerte; Präferenzmessung; health economics; preference measurement; utilities; valuation.

Publication types

English Abstract
Review

MeSH terms

Cost-Benefit Analysis / economics
Germany
Health Status Indicators
Humans
National Health Programs / economics*
Psychometrics / statistics & numerical data
Quality of Life / psychology*
Quality-Adjusted Life Years
Reproducibility of Results
Value of Life*