Surgical prioritization based on decision model outcomes is not sensitive to differences between the health-related quality of life values estimates of physicians and citizens.

Anouk M I A van Alphen Eline M Krijkamp Benjamin Yaël Gravesteijn Rob J Baatenburg de Jong Jan J V Busschbach

Published in: Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation (2023)

Physicians put higher values on health states than citizens. However, these differences only result in switches between adjacent entries in the ranking. It would seem that HRQoL values obtained from physicians are adequate to inform decision models during crises.

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