Barriers and Strategies in Guideline Implementation-A Scoping Review.

Research indicates that clinical guidelines are often not applied. The success of their implementation depends on the consideration of a variety of barriers and the use of adequate strategies to overcome them. Therefore, this scoping review aims to describe and categorize the most important barriers to guideline implementation.

Can adult weights be used to value child health states? Testing the influence of perspective in valuing EQ-5D-Y.

Purpose: To test whether or not adults assign the same values to hypothetical health states that describe health in adults as when those same descriptions refer to the health of a child.

Methods: A two-part self-completion questionnaire was designed in which respondents were asked firstly to rate a fixed set of EQ-5D-Y health states on a 0-100 visual analogue scale as if they themselves were in these states. Two versions of the questionnaire were produced each with a different second part.

[Valuation of health-related quality of life and utilities in health economics].

Measuring health-related quality of life is an important aspect in economic evaluation of health programmes. The development of utility-based (preference-based) measures is advanced by the discipline of health economics. Different preference measures are applied for valuing health states to produce a weighted health state index.