Aim: Pressure Ulcers are an important health care problem, recognized as ‘Never Events’ by the US Government. To date, there is no instrument to capture their health utility impact, or the value of treatments and prevention strategies. The Pressure Ulcer Quality of Life Utility Instrument...

Harris has been a vocal critic of CEA and the QALY for over 20 years. In this paper we attempt to summarise and evaluate both Harris’ criticisms of CEA and the alternative procedures he commends to health care decision makers. Harris’ basic position is that all health benefits are...

Is the value of being healthy the same across all ages? The standard practice of economic evaluation assumes so, and does not discriminate between a QALY (Quality Adjusted Life Year) to an elderly person and one to a child. But on the other hand, it is possible to assume that the value of a...

Recent years have seen increasing interest in the use of ordinal methods to elicit health state utility values as an alternative to conventional methods such as standard gamble and time trade-off (TTO). However, in order to use these ordinal methods to produce health state values for use in...

An important consideration when establishing priorities in health care is the likely effects that alternative allocations of resources will have on health-related quality of life (HRQoL). This paper reports on the analysis of data from a study which elicited health state valuations (using the...