This study is an analysis of the economic loss and loss of income, and a holistic approach of life expectancy of outpatient who has chronic kidney disease in Chun district, Phayao province. The sample is an outpatient with chronic kidney disease and admitted to the Chun hospital, Chun district,...

The increased availability of panel data has made it possible to estimate and measure health dynamics for population subgroups who may have systematically different levels of dynamics. We use a straightforward hypothetical example to investigate the implications of different levels of health...

Cost-utility analysis is used within the health technology assessment processes of many countries. For these analyses, patients typically indicate the health state that they are in based on a pre-defined descriptive classification. Each health state corresponds to a utility value; these values...

This article is intended to systematicaly show all the conditions that the Quality Adjusted Life Year (QALY) must satisfy so that it can be interpreted as a von Newman-Morgenstern utility. Such conditions cover two cases. When health states are chronic, we shall be referring to the conditions...

Purpose: To describe a new approach for deriving a preference-based index from a condition specific measure that uses Rasch analysis to develop health states. Methods: CORE-OM is a 34-item instrument monitoring clinical outcomes of people with common mental health problems. CORE-OM is...

There is a paucity of economic evidence relating to interventions for peripheral nerve disorders and the aim of this study was to illustrate the application of economic evaluation in this area by making a comparison of the cost-effectiveness of intravenous immunoglobulin and prednisolone...

Subjective well-being has been proposed as an alternative to preference based values of health benefit for use in economic evaluation. We develop a latent factor model of health and well-being in order to compare reported satisfaction with life, satisfaction with health and SF-6D responses....