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Health Utility Elicitation

Is There Still a Role for Direct Methods?

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The findings and conclusions in this article are those of the authors and do not necessarily represent the official position of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. No sources of funding were used to prepare this article.

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  1. Child Health Evaluation and Research Unit, Department of Pediatrics and Communicable Diseases, Division of General Pediatrics, University of Michigan Health System, 300 North Ingalls Street, Room 6E14, SPC 5456, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109, USA

    Lisa A. Prosser

  2. National Center on Birth Defects and Developmental Disabilities, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Scott D. Grosse

  3. Center for Health Decision Science, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA

    Eve Wittenberg

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Prosser, L.A., Grosse, S.D. & Wittenberg, E. Health Utility Elicitation. PharmacoEconomics 30, 83–86 (2012). https://doi.org/10.2165/11597720-000000000-00000

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