30th Annual Meeting of the Society for Medical Decision Making (October 19-22, 2008): Concurrent Session Abstracts A: Generating Utilities from Health Status Instruments

Monday, October 20, 2008: 1:30 PM

Grand Ballroom A (Hyatt Regency Penns Landing)

Discussant:

Scott B. Cantor, PhD

Session Chairs:

Anna N. A. Tosteson, ScD. and Joel Tsevat, MD, MPH

1:30 PM

INVESTIGATING THE IMPACT OF PRIOR RANKING ON VAS RATINGS FOR EQ-5D HEALTH STATES
Ling-Hsiang Chuang, Paul Kind, Victor Zarate and Helen Weatherly, Centre for Health Economics, University of York, York, United Kingdom

1:45 PM

MAPPING THE ST GEORGE'S RESPIRATORY QUESTIONNAIRE TO UTILITY VALUES USING THE EQ-5D
Helen J. Starkie, BA, MSc¹, Andrew H. Briggs, BA, MSc, DPhil¹ and Mike G. Chambers, MA, MSc², (1)University of Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, (2)GlaxoSmithKline, Uxbridge, United Kingdom

2:00 PM

TREND OF QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR AND QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE EXPECTANCY AMONG U.S. ADULTS FROM 1993-2007
Haomiao Jia, PhD, Columbia University, New York, NY and Erica Lubetkin, City University of New York School of Medicine, New York, NY

2:15 PM

STATE-LEVEL QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE YEAR AND QUALITY-ADJUSTED LIFE EXPECTANCY AMONG U.S. ADULTS
Haomiao Jia, PhD, Columbia University, New York, NY and Erica Lubetkin, City University of New York School of Medicine, New York, NY