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The European Breast Cancer Council (EBCC) traditionally identifies controversies or major deficiencies in the management of patients with breast cancer and selects a multidisciplinary expert team to collaborate in setting crucial principles and recommendations to improve breast cancer care. The 2024 EBCC manifesto focuses on disparities in the care of patients with metastatic breast cancer. There are several reasons for existing disparities both between and within countries.

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  • - The study aimed to create a Dutch value set for the Mental Health Quality of Life questionnaire (MHQoL) to improve the evaluation of mental health care benefits in health economics.
  • - A discrete choice experiment (DCE) involving 1,308 participants was conducted to gather data, focusing on key dimensions such as "physical health," "mood," and "relationships" that are valued by people with mental health issues.
  • - The resulting value set enables the generation of index values for various MHQoL states, facilitating cost-utility analyses for mental healthcare interventions in the Netherlands.
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Estimating an anchored utility tariff for the well-being of older people measure (WOOP) for the Netherlands.

Soc Sci Med

May 2022

Erasmus School of Health Policy & Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam (ESHPM), Rotterdam, the Netherlands; Erasmus Centre for Health Economics Rotterdam (EsCHER), Erasmus University Rotterdam, Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Objective: Health economic evaluations using common health-related quality of life measures may fall short in adequately incorporating all relevant benefits of health and social care interventions targeted at older people. The Well-being of Older People measure (WOOP) is a broader well-being measure that comprises nine well-being domains. The objective of this study was to estimate a utility tariff for the WOOP, to facilitate its application in cost-utility analyses.

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