Estimating health state utility from activities of daily living in the French National Hospital Discharge Database: a feasibility study with head and neck cancer

Abstract Background Health state utility (HSU) is a core component of QALYs and cost-effectiveness analysis, although HSU is rarely estimated among a representative sample of patients. We explored the feasibility of assessing HSU in head and neck cancer from the French National Hospital Discharge da...

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Main Authors: Michaël Schwarzinger, Stéphane Luchini, for the EPICORL Study Group
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2019-07-01
Series:Health and Quality of Life Outcomes
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Online Access:http://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s12955-019-1195-9