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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Health utility"”.
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Health Utility Assessment Among Caregivers of Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis
… effects of the EQ–5D–3L were tested. Caregiver health utilities were estimated using the EQ–5D–3L and compared with population norms; and predictors of utilities were identified using path analysis, a form of structural equational modelling (SEM). Correlational analysis was conducted to assess …
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Health Utilities in People with Chronic Hepatitis C
… quality of life of hepatitis C patients is using health utilities. Health utilities provide insight into not only the state of a patient’s health but also the strength of preference for that health state. This is a meaningful metric that can be used to measure individual and population-level …
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Cost Utility Analysis of Balloon Kyphoplasty and Vertebroplasty in the Treatment of Vertebral Compression Fractures in the United States
… are associated with chronic pain, decreased health related quality of life and high health care costs. Balloon kyphoplasty and vertebroplasty are vertebral augmentation procedures, widely used by spine surgeons to relieve pain in these patients. A number of studies have been conducted to …
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Pharmaceutical care for pulmonary tuberculosis treatment in Thailand
… were to compare: 1) treatment success; 2) healthcare resource uses; and 3) out-of-pocket (OOP) expenditures, indirect costs, and health-related quality of life (HRQoL) associated with pharmaceutical care, home visit, and modified DOT in three referral hospitals in Songkhla province, …
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Towards a Health Economic Simulation Model of Type 2 Diabetes in Sweden
… accuracy in the test sample. In paper III, health utility weights associated with several T2DM-related complications were estimated using survey data on the Swedish version of EuroQol (EQ-5D) instrument among 1,757 T2DM patients collected by the NDR in 2008. The results indicated that …
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Novel Applications of Syndemic Theory for Global Public Health: Considerations for Gender Based Violence and Mixed Methods Research
… and analytical approaches as well as global health applications. Three research aims scaffold this overall goal. In Aim 1, I conducted a systematic review of quantitative research that tested syndemic theories involving GBV the context of LMICs. The following research questions guided the …