HEDS presented several papers and posters at the recent ISOQOL Conference in Denver, Colorado. They were:
The impact of condition labelling on health state utility values. By Donna Rowen, John Brazier, Aki Tsuchiya, Tracey Young, Rachel Ibbotson.
The impact of adding a generic dimension to a condition-specific preference-based measure. By Tracey Young, John Brazier, Donna Rowen, Aki Tsuchiya, Yaling Yang.
Adaptation of a method for developing a preference-based measure from a descriptive health-related quality of life measure (HRQOL): a confirmatory versus exploratory approach for the cancer-specific QLQ-C30. By Daniel S. J. Costa, Madeleine T King, Neil K Aaronson, John E Brazier, David F Cella, Peter M Fayers, Julie S Pallant, Stuart Peacock, Simon Pickard, Donna Rowen, Galina Velikova, Tracey Young
Mapping the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General or -Colorectal to Preference-based Values Measured by SF-6D in Patients with Colorectal Neoplasm. By Carlos King Ho Wong, Cindy Lo Kuen Lam, Ka Ping Ma, Sarah M McGhee, Wai Lun Law, Jensen Tung Chung Poon, Pierre Chan Dora Lai Wan Kwong, Janice Tsang, Donna L Rowen, John E Brazier
Estimating the Minimally Important Difference (MID) of the Diabetes Health Profile-18 (DHP-18) for Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus (MT). By Brendan Mulhern and Keith Meadows
'Using PRO data to generate QALYS for Economic Evaluation’. Half day workshop presented by Donna Rowen, Tracey Young and Brendan Mulhern.