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Recognising diversity in public preferences: the use of preference sub-groups in cost-effectiveness analysis. A response to Sculpher and Gafni

✍ Scribed by Angela Robinson; David Parkin

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
Year: 2002
Tongue: English
Weight: 63 KB
Volume: 11
Category: Article
ISSN: 1057-9230
DOI: 10.1002/hec.735

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✦ Synopsis

A recent paper in this journal by Sculpher and Gafni (henceforth S&G), argues for the use of 'preference sub-groups' in determining health state utilities values for use in cost-effectiveness analyses [1]. S&G adopt as a starting point the suggestion that the source of utilities should be the general public rather than patients, and make two main points:

(1) Utility values should be derived from subgroups of the public, defined in terms of socioeconomic or demographic characteristics, in order to take account of systematic heterogeneity in preferences.

(2) The use of such sub-groups' values will lead to greater efficiency in resource allocation.

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