Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về sinh học được đăng trên tạp chí hóa học quốc tế đề tài : Assessing the empirical validity of alternative multi-attribute utility measures in the maternity context | Health and Quality of Life Outcomes BioMed Central Open Access Assessing the empirical validity of alternative multi-attribute utility measures in the maternity context Stavros Petrou 1 2 Jane Morrell3 and Helen Spiby4 Address National Perinatal Epidemiology Unit Department of Public Health University of Oxford Old Road Campus Oxford UK 2Health Economics Research Centre Department of Public Health University of Oxford Old Road Campus Oxford UK 3Centre for Health and Social Care Research School of Human and Health Sciences University of Huddersfield Huddersfield UK and 4Mother and Infant Research Unit Department of Health Sciences University of York York UK Email Stavros Petrou - Jane Morrell - Helen Spiby-hs507@ Corresponding author Published 6 May 2009 Received 17 February 2009 Health and Quality of Life Outcomes 2009 7 40 doi 1477-7525-7-40 Accepted 6 May 2009 This article is available from http content 7 1 40 2009 Petrou et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Multi-attribute utility measures are preference-based health-related quality of life measures that have been developed to inform economic evaluations of health care interventions. The objective of this study was to compare the empirical validity of two multi-attribute utility measures EQ-5D and SF-6D based on hypothetical preferences in a large maternity population in England. Methods Women who participated in a randomised controlled trial of additional postnatal support provided by trained community support workers represented the study population for this investigation. The women were asked to complete the EQ-5D descriptive system which defines .
