LOWERING THE ‘FLOOR’ OF THE SF-6D SCORING ALGORITHM USING A LOTTERY EQUIVALENT METHOD
✍ Scribed by José María Abellán Perpiñán; Fernando Ignacio Sánchez Martínez; Jorge Eduardo Martínez Pérez; Ildefonso Méndez
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 363 KB
- Volume
- 21
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1057-9230
- DOI
- 10.1002/hec.1792
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✦ Synopsis
SUMMARY
This paper presents a new scoring algorithm for the SF‐6D, one of the most popular preference‐based health status measures. Previous SF‐6D value sets have a minimum (a floor), which is substantially higher than the lowest value generated by the EQ‐5D model. Our algorithm expands the range of SF‐6D utility scores in such a way that the floor is significantly lowered. We obtain the wider range because of the use of a lottery equivalent method through which preferences from a representative sample of Spanish general population are elicited. Copyright © 2011 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.