David:
At an AHSR meeting four years ago, John Ware (JE Ware, the developer of the
SF-36) discussed several methods for scoring these scales. One involved
converting item scores to economic utilities. I just tried searching Medline
to see if anything was published. It must be burried in articles that are
disease-specific. You might try contacting John Ware at the Medical Outcomes
Trust:
http://www.outcomes-trust.org/
Tim Champney
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Subject: Converting Quality-of-life-Scores in utilities
Dear List Members!
I kindly ask you for help on my question: Do you know of a method to
"convert" quality-of-life-scores to preference-based utilities? I'm doing a
cost-utility study and have SF-36 Scores of the patients. Basicly I think
its a different concept behind the approaches because the SF-36 does not
incorporate preferences for different health states, but there may be
something like "preference weights"?
Any help, advise or suggested reading would be greatly appreciated!
Can you give me some advise how I could get along with the data I have?
Maybe you could suggest some reading to me?
Thank you very much for help for advance!
Best wishes!
David
David LB Schwappach
MSc Econ
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14059 Berlin
Germany
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