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

Dados Bibliográficos

ID9101283
AutoresJames W Bush (University of California San Diego, autor correspondente), John P Anderson (University of California San Diego), Robert M Kaplan (0000-0003-0229-0200), Wallace R Blischke (University of Southern California)
Ano1982
Volume20
Fascículo5
Páginas516-525
Data de publicação1982-05-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoMedical Care (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0025-7079 • E-ISSN: 1537-1948
EditoraOvid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1097/00005650-198205000-00008
PMID7098590
OpenAlexW2022472184
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas3
Referências 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