title: Healthy-days time equivalents for outcomes of acute rotavirus infections.
abstract: Rotavirus is the most common cause of severe gastroenteritis in infants and young children worldwide. Health-state utility measures used in economic evaluations of rotavirus vaccines do not reflect differences between mild and severe symptoms of rotavirus gastroenteritis and, therefore, do not adequately capture preferences for non-fatal outcomes associated with rotavirus common in industrialized countries. This paper describes the development and results of a survey specifically designed to develop quality-adjusted time equivalents for rotavirus gastroenteritis among a sample of parents with young children in the United States as an alternative to conventional QALY measures in assessing cost-effectiveness.
authors.affiliation: RTI International, RTI Health Solutions, Research Triangle Park, NC 27709-2194, USA. abhauber@rti.org
authors.forename: A Brett
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Hauber
authors.forename: Robbin
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Itzler
authors.forename: F Reed
authors.initials: FR
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.forename: Ateesha F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Mohamed
authors.forename: Juan Marcos
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: González
authors.forename: John R
authors.initials: JR
authors.lastname: Cook
authors.forename: Emmanuel B
authors.initials: EB
authors.lastname: Walter
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005759:Gastroenteritis / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents; D019057:Quality-Adjusted Life Years; D012400:Rotavirus Infections / Q000628:therapy*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D014481:United States