Quality-adjusted life year weights and treatment bias: Theory and evidence from cognitive interviews.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The purpose of this research is to understand the thought processes that underpin responses to stated preference approaches for eliciting quality of life, in particular the standard gamble.

Methods

We utilize standard gamble preference elicitation survey techniques to elicit quality-adjusted life year weights for two reduced health states: chronic severe depression and total blindness. After the survey, we conduct open-ended qualitative interviews with respondents to determine their thought processes while taking the surveys and to shed light on what their quality-adjusted life year weight is capturing. Survey responses were coded and analyzed for themes in NVivo, the results of which were then formalized in the terminology of decision sciences.

Results

The

SUBMITTER: Patenaude BN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6563399 | biostudies-literature | 2019

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature