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Utility values:
These US ICER on-treatment utility values of 0.1 and 0.05 are applied to the D state and C state, respectively in the treatment arms with all other utilities unchanged from base case assumptions.
The base case values for the C, D and E states were substituted with the utility values derived from the mapping of the PedsQL score in the CHERISH study to EQ-5D-Y as described in Section xx values for these states were 0.878 (B state), 0.764 (C state), 0.756 (D state) and 0.730 (E state);
The base case values for the C, D and E states were substituted with the utility values derived from the Lloyd et al 2017 Clinician-proxy Case Vignette study as described in Section xx values for these states were 0.710 (B state), -0.04 (C state), -0.12 (D state) and -0.33 (E state);


Y a su vez, proxy en otros contextos:
Including caregiver disutility scores
This explorative scenario applies a disutility for caregivers that varies by the health state of the patient, drawing data from a proxy, but related, disease – spina bifida – see Section for details.

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