Pm4 Evaluation of Atheory of Global Health Preference Formation

A Patient-Based Utility Measure of Health for Clinical Trials of Cancer Therapy Based on the European Organization for the Research and Treatment of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire

“…Global approach. The second approach to deriving preference‐based algorithms using QLQ‐C30 items was based on a theory of global health preference formation (GHPF) [28], where utility mapping models were generated from the two items that comprised the QLQ‐C30's QOL scale. The conceptual basis of the GHPF draws in part from reasoning coauthor JSW used to explain findings in the US valuation of the EQ‐5D health states related to the relationship between respondent characteristics and preferences for hypothetical health states [4].…”