Development of a Patient-Reported Palliative Care-Specific Health Classification System: The POS-E
Open Access
- 7 March 2017
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Springer Nature in The Patient - Patient-Centered Outcomes Research
- Vol. 10 (3) , 353-365
Abstract
Generic preference-based measures are commonly used to estimate quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) to inform resource-allocation decisions. However, concerns have been raised that generic measures may be inappropriate in palliative care.Keywords
Funding Information
- Cicely Saunders International (24611)
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