Disability WeightDW, Severity Weighting Value
A value between zero and one representing the severity of health loss from a specific non-fatal condition, used to calculate years lived with disability.
Outcomes & Quality of Life
Terms for measuring and valuing health outcomes, including patient-reported outcomes, utility values and QALYs.
- Topic: Outcomes & Quality of Life
- 38 terms
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Disability-Adjusted Life YearDALY, Disability Adjusted Life-Year
A disability-adjusted life year, or DALY, measures health loss by combining years of life lost because of premature death with years lived with disability.
Discrete Choice ExperimentDCE, Discrete-Choice Experiment
A discrete choice experiment, or DCE, presents respondents with repeated sets of hypothetical alternatives described by attributes and asks them to select a preferred option.
Disease-Specific InstrumentDisease-Targeted Measure, Disease-Specific Questionnaire
A health status questionnaire capturing outcomes and symptoms relevant to a particular condition, more sensitive to change than a generic instrument.
DisutilityUtility Loss, Negative Utility
The reduction in utility from experiencing a health state worse than full health, expressed as a value below one on the utility scale.