The use of disease-specific outcome measures in cost-utility analysis: The development of Dutch societal preference weights for the FACT-L scale

Introduction: The Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-Lung (FACT-L) is a validated, sensitive and reliable patient questionnaire that evaluates and quantifies quality of life (QOL) across several domains, including lung cancer-related symptoms. The FACT-L was not designed for use in economic evaluation and does not incorporate preferences into its scoring system. Objective: To derive a set of Dutch preference weights for FACT-L health states that can be used to convert FACT-L into a single value that can be used in costutility analyses. Methods: A representative sample of the Dutch populat... Mehr ...