allow utility values to be derived at the individual level also. The DCE presented respondents with eight pairwise risky … choices to estimate aggregate utility values for three EQ-5D health states, ranging from mild to severe. The design allowed … the elicitation of utility values for worse-than-dead states. Risk was represented using the stimulus used by EuroVaQ …

assumptions and are robust to violations of expected utility. The results support the use of QALYs at the aggregate level, i.e. in …