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Measuring Health and Broader Well-Being Benefits in the Context of Opiate Dependence: The Psychometric Performance of the ICECAP-A and the EQ-5D-5L

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The ICECAP-A and EuroQol five-dimensional questionnaire (EQ-5D-5L) have been used for the economic evaluation of treatments for substance use disorders.
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This article is published in Value in Health.The article was published on 2016-09-01 and is currently open access. It has received 35 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Construct validity & Criterion validity.

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Health-related quality of life and prevalence of six chronic diseases in homeless and housed people: a cross-sectional study in London and Birmingham, England

TL;DR: Differences in health between housed and homeless people are better understood as a ‘cliff’, and the exception was problems related to anxiety, which were substantially more common in homeless people than any of the housed groups.
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Capability instruments in economic evaluations of health-related interventions: a comparative review of the literature

TL;DR: There is a lack of consensus regarding the most appropriate way to use capability instruments in economic evaluations with discussion about capability-adjusted life years (CALYs), years of capability equivalence and the trade-off between maximisation of capability versus sufficient capability.
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Maximizing Health or Sufficient Capability in Economic Evaluation? A Methodological Experiment of Treatment for Drug Addiction

TL;DR: A methodological case study designed to explore the impact of changing the evaluative space within an economic evaluation from health to capability well-being and the decision-making rule from health maximization to the maximization of sufficient capability.
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Adaptation and assessments of the Chinese version of the ICECAP-A measurement.

TL;DR: The ICECAP-A measure can be adapted to evaluate wellbeing in China, but cultural changes to the wording are necessary and it is a valid measurement of wellbeing and can complement the EQ-5D already used in China.
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A Systematic Review of the Feasibility and Psychometric Properties of the ICEpop CAPability Measure for Adults and Its Use So Far in Economic Evaluation

TL;DR: The ICECAP-A is correlated with health-related quality of life but is most appropriately regarded as a complement for and not a substitute to the EuroQol 5-dimension 3-level and EuroQOL 5- dimension 5-level in particular.
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Development of a supportive care measure for economic evaluation of end-of-life care using qualitative methods

TL;DR: Although the supportive care measure developed here requires validation and valuation, it provides a substantial step forward in appropriate economic evaluation of end-of-life care.
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QALYs and Carers

TL;DR: In the longer term, more flexible forms of cost-per-QALY analysis may be required to take account of the broader impacts on carers and the weight these impacts should receive in decision making.
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A qualitative assessment of the content validity of the ICECAP-A and EQ-5D-5L and their appropriateness for use in health research.

TL;DR: A qualitative assessment of the content validity and appropriateness for use of the ICECAP-A and EQ-5D-5L measures, using novel methodology suggests that these measures hold acceptable levels ofcontent validity and are appropriate for use in health research.
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The trouble with QALYs...

TL;DR: This paper summarises the use of QALYs in evaluating changes in mental health states, highlighting the benefits and challenges of their use in this field and suggests new developmental work is needed to construct better QALy-measuring tools for use in the mental health field.
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Cost-effectiveness of injectable opioid treatment v. oral methadone for chronic heroin addiction

TL;DR: Injectable opioid treatments are more cost-effective than optimised oral methadone for chronic refractory heroin addiction and the choice between supervised injectable heroin and injectable Methadone is less clear.
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