Development of a preference-based index from the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire-25.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Understanding how individuals value health states is central to patient-centered care and to health policy decision making. Generic preference-based measures of health may not effectively capture the impact of ocular diseases. Recently, 6 items from the National Eye Institute Visual Function Questionnaire-25 were used to develop the Visual Function Questionnaire-Utility Index health state classification, which defines visual function health states.

Objective

To describe elicitation of preferences for health states generated from the Visual Function Questionnaire-Utility Index health state classification and development of an algorithm to estimate health preference scores for any health state.

Design, setting, and participants

Nonintervention, cross-sectiona

SUBMITTER: Rentz AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4357476 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature