Joint Utility Estimators in Substance Use Disorders.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Although co-occurring conditions are common with substance use disorders (SUDs), estimation methods for joint health state utilities have not yet been tested in this context.

Objectives

To compare joint health state utility estimators in SUD to inform economic evaluation.

Methods

We conducted two Internet-based surveys of US adults to collect community perspective standard gamble utilities for SUD and common co-occurring conditions. We evaluated six conditions as they occur individually and four combinations of these as they occur in tandem. We applied joint utility estimators using the six individual conditions' utilities to compare their performance relative to the observed combination states' utilities. We assessed performance with bias (estimated utilit

SUBMITTER: Wittenberg E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5356490 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature