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Monday, October 22, 2007: 11:00 AM-12:30 PM
Grand Station II (Sheraton Station Square Hotel)
Concurrent Abstracts B: Health Status and Utility
Session Chairs:Eve Wittenberg, PhD, MPP
Rachel Hess, MD, MS
11:00 AMVALUING HEALTH: DOES ENRICHING A SCENARIO LEAD TO HIGHER UTILITIES?
Anne M. Stiggelbout, PhD, Yvette Peeters, MA
11:15 AMCAN UTILITY SCORES BE MULTIPLIED? EVIDENCE FROM THE PREFERENCE-BASED SCORES IN THE UNITED STATES
Alex Z. Fu, PhD, Michael W. Kattan, PhD
11:30 AMHEALTH UTILITIES INDEX SCORES FOR CHRONIC CONDITIONS IN THE U.S
Patrick Sullivan, PhD, Vahram Ghushchyan, PhD, Michael B. Nichol, PhD, Stephen Joel Coons, PhD, Lauren Lee, PharmD
11:45 AMVALUING SCLERODERMA HEALTH STATES: A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS, AND QUITE A FEW UTILES
Dinesh Khanna, MD, MS, Robert M. Kaplan, PhD, Mark Eckman, MD, MS, Ron Hays, PhD, Shaari Ginsburg, Joel Tsevat, MD, MPH
12:00 PM*MODELING CO-OCCURRING HEALTH CONDITIONS TO PREDICT HEALTH UTILITY FROM GENERIC HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE INDEXES
Janel Hanmer, David J. Vanness, PhD, Ron Gangnon, Dennis G Fryback
12:15 PM*DOES DOMAIN-BASED MODELING OF MUTLIPLE HEALTH CONDITIONS IMPROVE HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE ESTIMATES COMPARED TO SUMMARY-SCORE-BASED MODELING FOR THE SF-6D?
Janel Hanmer, Ron Gangnon, David J. Vanness, PhD, Dennis G. Fryback, PhD

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Papers submitted for the Lee B. Lusted Student Prize Competition are denoted with an asterisk (*)