Publications
Development of the descriptive system
Stevens, K J. Working With Children to Develop Dimensions for a Preference-Based, Generic, Pediatric Health-Related Quality-of-Life Measure. Qualitative Health Research. 2010; vol. 20: 340 - 351
Stevens, K J. Developing a descriptive system for a new preference-based measure of health-related quality of life for children. Quality of Life Research. 2009; 18 (8): 1105-1113
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Stevens, K J. Assessing the performance of a new generic measure of health related quality of life for children and refining it for use in health state valuation. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy. 2011; 9(3); 157-169
Stevens, K. The Child Health Utility 9D (CHU9D) – A New Paediatric Preference Based Measure of Health Related Quality of Life. PRO Newsletter #43. May 2010.
Valuation
Stevens, K J. Valuation of the Child Health Utility Index 9D (CHU9D). Health Economics and Decision Science Discussion Paper 10/07. 2010
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Ratcliffe J, Couzner L, Flynn T, Sawyer M, Stevens K, Brazier J, Burgess L. Valuing Child Health Utility 9D health states with a young adolescent sample: a feasibility study to compare Best-Worst Discrete Choice Experiment, Standard Gamble and Time Trade Off methods. Applied Health Economics and Health Policy. 2011;9 (1)15-27
Ratcliffe J, Flynn T, Terlich F, Stevens K, Brazier J, Sawyer M. A pilot study to apply best worst scaling discrete choice experiment methods to obtain adolescent specific values for the Child Health Utility 9D. Flinders Centre for Clinical Change Working paper 2011/1, Flinders University, South Australia.
Validation
Ratcliffe J, Stevens K, Flynn T Brazier J, Sawyer M. An assessment of the construct validity of the CHU9D in the Australian adolescent general population. Accepted in Quality of Life Research.
Presentations
- Katherine Stevens, Simon Palfreyman. The use of qualitative methods in developing the descriptive systems of preference based measures of health related quality of life for use in economic evaluation.UK HESG meeting. Bangor University 29th June-1st July.
- Katherine Stevens. Valuation of the Child Health Utility 9D (CHU9D). Part of an organised session on The Measurement and Valuation of Child and Adolescent Health. The 32nd Australian Conference of Health Economists. Sydney. September 2010.
- Katherine Stevens. How does health affect children’s quality of life? The views of children. Part of an organised session on Learning and Wellbeing in Childhood and Beyond. 3rd international conference of The Centre for the Study of Childhood and Youth. The University of Sheffield. 6th-8th July 2010
- Katherine Stevens. Development of a preference based PROM for use in a paediatric population. Part of a symposium on patient reported outcome measures(PROMS). International Nursing Research Conference. Gateshead 11th May 2010.
- Katherine Stevens. Developing a descriptive system for a new preference based measure of health related quality of life for children. UK HESG meeting. The University of Aberdeen 27th-29th August 2008.
- Katherine Stevens. Using children to develop the dimensions for a new generic paediatric health related quality of life measure. 14th Annual Conference of the International Society for Quality of Life Research (ISOQOL). Toronto, Canada, October 2007.
For further information or details of any of these presentations, please contact Katherine Stevens