Methodological issues raised by preference‐based approaches to measuring the health status of children
讨论了在儿童健康状况测量中应用偏好方法时需考虑的方法论问题，包括健康维度选择、受访者确定、描述与评估中的偏差来源以及不同测量方法的心理测量学完整性，对健康经济学和儿童健康政策研究者有参考价值。
This paper identifies and discusses a number of methodological issues that require consideration when applying preference-based approaches to the measurement of the health status of children. It is argued that the decision about which dimensions of health status to incorporate into health state descriptions or classifications should depend, in part, upon whether the measure will be used to inform resource allocation within or across age groups. In addition, the paper identifies and discusses a number of methodological issues surrounding the appropriate respondents for descriptions and valuations of health status in different contexts; potential sources of bias in the description and valuation processes; and the psychometric integrity of alternative measurement approaches.