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Br J Ophthalmol 2005;89:1233 doi:10.1136/bjo.2005.074294
  • Editorial

Utility analysis tells all

  1. M Brown
  1. Correspondence to: Melissa Brown Center for Value-Based Medicine, PO Box 335 Flourtown, PA 19031-1404, USA; mbrownvaluebasedmedicine.com

    We must embrace it and foster its use

    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 …

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