Measuring health-related quality of life: New findings and new questions

摘要

Preference-based community valuation of health-related quality of life is a bedrock of medical decision and cost-effectiveness analysis. We want to live longer and we want to live better, and we need to know how changes in our health will affect us in order to make informed medical decisions. As a society, we need measures of preference that can help us allocate resources most beneficially. Studies advancing our understanding of preferences for life/ health states and of the valuation process itself are thus a regular feature of Medical Decision Making.