Counterintuitive??? Preferences in Health-Related Quality-of-Life Measurement

Datos Bibliográficos

ID9101283
AutoresJames W Bush (University of California San Diego, autor de correspondencia), John P Anderson (University of California San Diego), Robert M Kaplan (0000-0003-0229-0200), Wallace R Blischke (University of Southern California)
Año1982
Volumen20
Número5
Páginas516-525
Fecha de publicación1982-05-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaMedical Care (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0025-7079 • E-ISSN: 1537-1948
EditorialOvid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1097/00005650-198205000-00008
PMID7098590
OpenAlexW2022472184
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas3
Referencias citadas9

The published preferences for scale steps in a health-related quality-of-life scale have been noted to be contrary to some prior assumptions about their rank ordering. The differences noted are actually statistically nonsignificant, and the observed ordering has a clear intuitive explanation. Several alternative explanations, including vagueness in the case descriptions, inaccuracy in the scaling method, the presence of interactions in the subjects' cognitive integration rules and chance inversions in the presence of the flat response surface characteristic of linear models, are all shown to be impossible or unlikely contributors to the empirical results. The implications of the "negative preferences" for other measurement approaches are discussed, as well as the role of separate attribute coefficients in health policy analyses

Cognition · Cognitive psychology · Counterintuitive · Econometrics · Empirical research · Epistemology · Fuzzy logic · Ordinal Scale · Quality (philosophy) · Rank (graph theory) · Scale (ratio) · Scaling · Statistics · Vagueness · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Decision-Making and Behavioral Economics · Economic and Environmental Valuation · Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life · Mathematics · Psychology