EDITORIAL
Utility analysis
Utility analysis tells all
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Melissa Brown
Center for Value-Based Medicine, PO Box 335 Flourtown, PA 19031-1404, USA; mbrown@valuebasedmedicine.com
We must embrace it and foster its use
Keywords: glaucoma; quality of life; India
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It is most gratifying to see the excellent article by Gupta et al in this issue of BJO (p 1241), as advocates of preference based quality of life instruments such as utility analysis (those that ask patients to make a choice about the desirability of their quality of life) versus function based instruments (those that measure primarily function: physical, psychological, vocational, avocational, cognitive, social, and so forth).1
Why are we such fans of utility analysis? The answer lies in the definition of what is the most desirable quality of life instrument.1 A good instrument should be:
- all encompassing with regard to the variables that comprise quality of life
- sensitive to small changes in health
- reliable (reproducible)
- applicable across all medical specialties
- able to be completed within a reasonable time period
- able to be understood by patients, and
- able to demonstrate construct validity (the ability to measure what
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