Original ArticleImproving Decision Analyses: Parent Preferences (Utility Values) for Pediatric Health Outcomes
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Utility Assessment Methods
The 2 most widely accepted methods for assessing utility states are the standard gamble and time trade-off methods. In both of these methods, participants are presented with descriptions of health states and then asked what they would be willing to sacrifice or risk to achieve a better health state.1, 13 The standard gamble, considered the “gold standard” method for measuring preferences, is based on the fundamental axioms of expected utility theory as first formalized by Von Neumann and
Results
Over the 2- year study period, 4561 potential participants were approached; of these, 4016 agreed to participate, for a recruitment rate of 88%. Demographic data on the participants are given in Table II. Most of the study participants were mothers (85%) and fathers (13%), with a few other relations rounding out the group. The children referred to in the scenarios were split approximately evenly between boys and girls. There was reasonable diversity in the group in terms of race and ethnicity,
Discussion
This study has provided utility values for 29 disease states likely to be of value in future economic analyses involving child health. Utility values were assessed using 2 widely accepted methodologies, and utility values are presented along with SEMs, SDs, and confidence intervals that are necessary for sensitivity analyses. These data explicitly meet the call for an “off-the shelf reference catalog of utility values” put forth by the US Public Health Service Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in
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