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Collecting Health-State Utility Estimates for Economic Models in Clinical Studies

Health-state utility (HSU) estimates are essential inputs for cost-utility models that increasingly guide health technology assessment, pricing, and reimbursement decisions worldwide. High quality HSU data requires thoughtful planning and execution to ensure accuracy, relevance, and alignment with the needs of economic models. This course explores best practices for designing and conducting utility data collection in clinical trials, real-world studies, and other research settings.

Technical Topics Include:
• Study design considerations for collecting HSU data
• Strategies for selecting and implementing utility instruments
• Data collection and analysis aligned with modeling requirements
• Anticipating and minimizing common threats to data quality
• Approaches for special and underrepresented populations, including rare disease, cognitive impairment, and pediatric groups

This Course Includes Practical Tools and Concepts That Can Be Immediately Applied, Including:
• Guidance from the ISPOR Good Practice Guideline (Wolowacz et al., 2016)
• Methods to ensure acceptability and usability of HSU estimates for model audiences
• Techniques to support future research and improve the validity of cost-utility evaluations

The course will not cover in any depth the fundamentals of utility theory, development of generic or condition-specific preference-based multi-attribute utility instruments, or how to perform time trade-off or standard gamble experiments. Nor will it cover statistical methods for mapping/cross-walking from a condition-specific HRQL measure. Although these topics will be touched on in overview, the focus of this course will be on optimizing the collection of utility data to provide HSU estimates for economic models.

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LEVEL: Introductory 
TRACK: Patient-Centered Research 

LENGTH: 4 Hours | Course runs 2 consecutive days, 2 hours each day

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