Terms for measuring and valuing health outcomes, including patient-reported outcomes, utility values and QALYs.
Health state valuation is the elicitation and modelling of preferences for defined states of health to assign scores on a scale anchored by dead and full health for use in economic evaluation and related decisions.
A multidimensional concept covering the physical, psychological, and social aspects of wellbeing affected by a person's health status or its treatment.
A summary population health measure expressing the number of years an individual is expected to live in good health.
An alternative to the QALY deriving its valuations directly from a sequence of health states over a lifetime, rather than combining separate utility values.
The third version of the Health Utilities Index, measuring eight dimensions including vision, hearing, dexterity, and pain, replacing HUI2's fertility dimension.
The specific statistical relationship, typically estimated through regression, used within a mapping algorithm to convert a health status score into a predicted utility value.
The smallest change in an outcome measure that patients or clinicians would consider meaningful, used to judge whether a statistically significant result matters clinically.
Any report of a patient's health status that comes directly from the patient without clinical interpretation, from symptom ratings to full quality of life instruments.