Visual Analogue Scales: do they have a role in the measurement of preferences for health states?
Visual Analogue Scales: do they have a role in the measurement of preferences for health states?
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视觉模拟量表：它们在测量健康状态偏好方面发挥作用吗？
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2004
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K. Stevens
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C. McCabe;K. Stevens
健康状况偏好数据越来越多地用于为国家医疗保健资源分配决策提供信息。在这种情况下，重要的是要确信我们向决策者提供的数据符合目的。虽然健康状况偏好测量中存在许多未解决的问题，但在程序上的某些领域的共识是不适当的。在过去的十年里，发表了许多论文，报告了使用视觉模拟量表来评估健康状况的实质性问题。在该杂志中，托兰斯和同事回顾了这些文献并得出结论，视觉模拟量表在健康状态偏好测量中的作用有限但有用。在本文中，我们批判性地回顾了 Torrance 及其同事提出的论点，并认为越来越明显的是，视觉模拟量表不是一种合适的方法，并且现在是时候接受 VAS 不应用于健康状态偏好测量了。
Health state preference data are increasingly used to inform national health care resource allocation decisions. In such circumstances it is important to be confident that the data we provide to decision makers is fit for purpose. Whilst there are many unresolved issues in health state preference measurement, there are some areas of agreement on procedures that are inappropriate. The past ten years have seen the publication of a number of papers reporting substantive problems with the use of visual analogue scales to value health states. In this journal Torrance and colleagues reviewed this literature and concluded that Visual Analogue Scales have a limited but useful role in health state preference measurement. In this paper we critically review the arguments advanced by Torrance and colleagues and argue that it is increasingly clear that Visual Analogue Scales are not an appropriate method and that the time has come to accept that VAS should not be used for health state preference measurement.