Quality-Adjusted Life Year Proxies for Caries in Primary Dentition: A Discrete Choice Experiment.

ABSTRACT:

Introduction

Cost-utility analysis (CUA)-a method to evaluate intervention cost-effectiveness-transforms benefits of alternatives into a measure of quantity and quality of life, such as quality-adjusted life year (QALY), to enable comparison across heterogeneous programs. Measurement challenges prevent directly estimating utilities and calculating QALYs for caries in primary dentition. Proxy disease QALYs are often used as a substitute; however, there lacks quantitative evidence that these proxy diseases are comparable to caries.

Objective

To employ a discrete choice experiment (DCE) to quantitatively determine the most comparable proxy disease for different levels of caries in primary dentition.

Methods

A cross-sectional DCE survey was administered to respondents (

SUBMITTER: Lin TK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10850881 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature