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| L M LamersSummaryAffiliation: Erasmus MC Country: The Netherlands Publications
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[Measuring the quality of life in economic evaluations: the Dutch EQ-5D tariff]L M Lamers
Instituut Beleid en Management Gezondheidszorg, Erasmus MC, Postbus 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam
Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd 149:1574-8. 2005..To value EQ-5D health states by a general Dutch public. EQ-5D is a standardised questionnaire that is used to calculate quality-adjusted life-years for cost-utility analysis...- Comparison of EQ-5D and SF-6D utilities in mental health patientsL M Lamers
Institute for Medical Technology Assessment bv, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Health Econ 15:1229-36. 2006..However, the use of EQ-5D resulted in larger health gains and consequent lower cost-utility ratios, especially for the subgroup with the highest severity of mental health problems... - The transformation of utilities for health states worse than death: consequences for the estimation of EQ-5D value setsLeida M Lamers
Institute for Medical Technology Assessment Department of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Med Care 45:238-44. 2007..No theoretical lower boundary on the utilities for states worse than death exists. As a consequence, negative values receive greater weight in the calculation of mean utilities. To avoid this, negative values often are bound at -1... - The Dutch tariff: results and arguments for an effective design for national EQ-5D valuation studiesL M Lamers
Institute for Medical Technology Assessment, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Health Econ 15:1121-32. 2006..The mean absolute error was 0.030. The design of this study is recommended for national EQ-5D valuation studies... - Inconsistencies in TTO and VAS values for EQ-5D health statesLeida M Lamers
Institute for Medical Technology Assessment iMTA, Erasmus MC, PO Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Med Decis Making 26:173-81. 2006..Most EQ-5D health states can be ordered logically. When people assign values to different health states, they may violate this logical order, which can be seen as inconsistencies... - Risk sharing as a supplement to imperfect capitation: a tradeoff between selection and efficiencyE M van Barneveld
Department of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, P O Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands
J Health Econ 20:147-68. 2001..Our empirical results strongly suggest that other forms of risk sharing yield better tradeoffs between selection and efficiency... - The relationship between productivity and health-related quality of life: an empirical exploration in persons with low back painLeida M Lamers
Institute Health Policy and Management and Institute for Medical Technology Assessment, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, Netherlands
Qual Life Res 14:805-13. 2005..In this paper the relationship between quality of life and productivity is highlighted and empirically assessed in persons suffering from low back pain... - On the assessment of preferences for health and duration: maximal endurable time and better than dead preferencesPeep F M Stalmeier
Department of Medical Technology Assessment, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Med Care 45:835-41. 2007..These problems may be linked to maximal endurable time (MET) preferences, the phenomenon that for severe states better than dead (BTD), shorter durations are often preferred to longer durations... - Cost-effectiveness of physical therapy and general practitioner care for sciaticaPim A J Luijsterburg
Department of General Practice, Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Spine (Phila Pa 1976) 32:1942-8. 2007..A total of 135 patients were randomly allocated to physical therapy added to general practitioners' care (n = 67) or to general practitioners' care alone (n = 68)... - The use of disease-specific outcome measures in cost-utility analysis: the development of Dutch societal preference weights for the FACT-L scaleLeida M Lamers
Institute for Medical Technology Assessment, Erasmus University Medical Center, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Pharmacoeconomics 25:591-603. 2007..The FACT-L was not designed for use in economic evaluation and does not incorporate preferences into its scoring system... - Gender and health care utilization: the role of mental distress and help-seeking propensityGerrit T Koopmans
Department of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Medical Center, P O Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Soc Sci Med 64:1216-30. 2007.... - Testing the interval-level measurement property of multi-item visual analogue scalesPaul F M Krabbe
Department of Medical Technology Assessment 138, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Qual Life Res 15:1651-61. 2006..Conditions were studied that may invalidate health-state values derived from the visual analogue scale (VAS)... - Is the impact of depressive complaints on the use of general health care services dependent on severity of somatic morbidity?Gerrit T Koopmans
Department of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Medical Center, P O Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands
J Psychosom Res 61:41-50. 2006.... - The Pharmacy-based Cost Group model: validating and adjusting the classification of medications for chronic conditions to the Dutch situationLeida M Lamers
Department of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus MC University Medical Center Rotterdam, P O Box 1738, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Health Policy 68:113-21. 2004..Of the 22 chronic conditions in this classification, 13 were included in the PCG model that is currently used in the Netherlands... - The gap effect: discontinuities of preferences around deadPeep F M Stalmeier
Department of Medical Technology Assessment, Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Health Econ 14:679-85. 2005..The assessment of health states considered to be worse than dead is a controversial issue... - Assessing the construct validity of three indicators of psychological distress in relation to perceived health and physical illnessGerrit T Koopmans
Department of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Medical Center, P O Box 1738, 3000 DR, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 40:1012-8. 2005.... - Health-adjusted premium subsidies in the NetherlandsWynand P M M van de Ven
Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Health Aff (Millwood) 23:45-55. 2004..Risk selection is not a major problem in the Netherlands. Despite the progress made, we are still faced with a full research agenda for risk adjustment in the coming years... - Risk adjusted premium subsidies and risk sharing: key elements of the competitive sickness fund market in the NetherlandsLeida M Lamers
Department of Health Policy and Management, Erasmus University Rotterdam, PO Box 17, 38, 3000 DR Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Health Policy 65:49-62. 2003..The effects of introducing financial risk for Dutch sickness funds on risk selection and consumer mobility are analysed. The paper concludes with a description of expected future developments... - The relationship between productivity and health-related QOL: an explorationWerner B F Brouwer
Department of Health Policy and Management, Institute for Medical Technology Assessment, Erasmus MC, University Medical Center Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Pharmacoeconomics 23:209-18. 2005..This paper explores these relationships between productivity and QOL to stimulate debate and research in this area... 
Cost-effectiveness of temozolomide for the treatment of newly diagnosed glioblastoma multiforme: a report from the EORTC 26981/22981 NCI-C CE3 Intergroup StudyLeida M Lamers
Institute for Medical Technology Assessment bv, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Cancer 112:1337-44. 2008..The study aimed to compare the cost-effectiveness of concomitant and adjuvant temozolomide (TMZ) for the treatment of newly diagnosed glioblastoma multiforme versus initial radiotherapy alone from a public health care perspective...