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... EQ-SD: A five-dimension measure of health status developed by a consortium of European researchers using a mailed survey to collect information about health and functional states being experienced by individuals (EuroQol Group, 19901. Preference weights have been developed for the venous heath states described by He EQ-SD, making the measure suitable for use as quality adjustments to compute QALE.
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... Preference weights for the different health states in this combined classification scheme were derived Mom a community-based psychometnc survey. QWB weights have been used in the health policy literature and in the cost-utility analysis literature as the morbidity component of a QALE computation.
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