People in states worse than dead according to the EQ-5D UK value set: would they rather be dead?
Lars BernfortBjörn GerdleMagnus HusbergLars-Åke LevinPublished in: Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation (2018)
Though negative QALY-weights are not very common, they constitute a non-negligible part of health states in a Swedish population 65 years and older. Prevalence of SWD is higher among women than men and increases with age. From responses to other questions on well-being and life situation, there is reason to doubt the reasonableness of experience-based negative QALY-weights in many cases.