CAD-based feature-utility measures for automatic vision programming

2002 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chien-Huei Chen ◽  
P.G. Mulgaonkar
Keyword(s):  
Utility Measures

Development and Evaluation of an Online Toolkit for Managers of 9-1-1 Emergency Communications Centers to Reduce Occupational Stress

2021 ◽  
pp. 152483992110423
Author(s):  
Hendrika Meischke ◽  
Megan Rogers ◽  
Sarah Manchanda ◽  
Jeanne M. Sears ◽  
Debra Revere ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Occupational Stress ◽  
Stress Reduction ◽  
Online Survey ◽  
Workplace Stress ◽  
Digital Learning ◽  
Registration Data ◽  
Qualitative Thematic Analysis ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Utility Measures

This article describes the development and evaluation of an online workplace stress reduction toolkit for use by managers of 9-1-1 emergency communication centers (ECCs). A three-step process for development and testing of digital learning resources was used: (1) establishing need and focus through ECC manager stakeholder engagement, (2) pretesting of the toolkit with the target ECC manager audience, and (3) toolkit utilization and evaluation. The toolkit was developed in close partnership with stakeholders throughout the entire process. Toolkit usage was documented via registration data. The evaluation utilized an online survey that included closed and open-ended questions, which were analyzed using descriptive statistics and qualitative thematic analysis. Over a 20-month period, 274 people registered for the toolkit and, of those, 184 (67%) accessed the content. Respondents to the evaluation survey (N = 156) scored the toolkit highly on satisfaction, self-efficacy, and perceived utility measures. Survey respondents reported intent to apply toolkit content through the following: providing organizational resources to help workers take better care of themselves (41%); creating a lower stress worksite environment (35%) and sharing resources with staff to (1) reduce stress (19%), (2) support conflict resolution (21%), and (3) prevent and/or stop bullying (17%). In delivering actionable content to ECC managers, the toolkit shows promise in addressing and mitigating occupational stress in ECCs. Further research needs to determine the relationship of this strategy for reducing ECC stress.

Incorporating Mortality in Health Utility Measures

2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (7) ◽  
pp. 862-872
Author(s):  
Barry Dewitt ◽  
George W. Torrance
Keyword(s):  
Health Utility Index ◽  
Health Utility ◽  
Quality Adjusted Life Year ◽  
The State ◽  
Multidimensional Space ◽  
Health States ◽  
Utility Systems ◽  
Design Choice ◽  
Scale Properties ◽  
Utility Measures

The creation of multiattribute health utility systems requires design choices that have profound effects on the utility model, many of which have been documented and studied in the literature. Here we describe one design choice that has, to the best of our knowledge, been unrecognized and therefore ignored. It can emerge in any multiattribute decision analysis in which one or more essential outcomes cannot be described in terms of the multiattribute space. In health applications, the state of being dead is such an outcome. When the remaining health is conceptualized as a multidimensional space, determining the utility of the state of being dead requires using the interval-scale properties of cardinal utility, combined with elicited utilities for the state of being dead and the all-worst state, to produce a utility function in which the state of being dead has a utility of 0 and full health has a utility of 1 (i.e., the quality-adjusted life-year scale). Although previously unrecognized, there are two approaches to accomplish that step, and they produce different results in almost all cases. As a corollary, the choice of approach determines the proportion of states rated as worse than dead by the system. For example, in the Health Utility Index 3 (HUI3), the method used classifies 78% of the 972,000 unique health states in the classification system as worse than dead, and that proportion increases to 85% when the HUI3 is recalculated using the alternative approach. Studies of populations with significant morbidity are the most likely to be sensitive to the design choice. Those who design utility measures should be aware that they are using a researcher degree of freedom when they decide how to scale the state of being dead.

Differential Psychometric Properties of EuroQoL 5-Dimension 5-Level and Short-Form 6-Dimension Utility Measures in Low Back Pain

Spine ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (11) ◽  
pp. E679-E686 ◽  
Author(s):  
Prudence Wing Hang Cheung ◽  
Carlos King Ho Wong ◽  
Jason Pui Yin Cheung
Keyword(s):  
Low Back Pain ◽  
Back Pain ◽  
Psychometric Properties ◽  
Short Form ◽  
Low Back ◽  
Utility Measures

A health utility assessment of trapeziectomy with ligament reconstruction and tendon interposition for thumb trapeziometacarpal osteoarthritis

2019 ◽  
Vol 44 (7) ◽  
pp. 722-727
Author(s):  
Johnny Ionut Efanov ◽  
David-Dan Nguyen ◽  
Ali Izadpanah ◽  
Michel Alain Danino ◽  
Patrick Harris
Keyword(s):  
Ligament Reconstruction ◽  
Health Utility ◽  
Health State ◽  
Level Of Evidence ◽  
Trapeziometacarpal Osteoarthritis ◽  
Life Years ◽  
Trapeziometacarpal Joint Osteoarthritis ◽  
Tendon Interposition ◽  
Utility Measures

Trapeziectomy with ligament reconstruction and tendon interposition (LRTI) for trapeziometacarpal joint osteoarthritis may have both postoperative benefits and complications. This study sought to determine the health state utility outcome measures of trapeziectomy with LRTI. Patients who underwent trapeziectomy with LRTI were invited to complete the brief Michigan Hand Questionnaire and utility questionnaires outcomes using a visual analogue scale , time trade-off and standard gamble. Quality-adjusted life years (QALYs) were derived from these utility measures. For this study 32 patients were recruited, with a mean age of 61. Most patients (27/32) perceived the procedure as successful. Utility measures and QALYs serve the purpose of comparing different surgical procedures in terms of their impact on the quality of life of patients as a function of the benefits and complications of each procedure. In this study, the utility of trapeziectomy with LRTI was less than has been described for open palmar fasciectomy but more than for total wrist arthrodesis. Level of evidence: IV

scholarly journals Comparison of Health State Utility Measures in Patients With Head and Neck Cancer

2015 ◽  
Vol 141 (8) ◽  
pp. 696 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher W. Noel ◽  
Daniel J. Lee ◽  
Qin Kong ◽  
Wei Xu ◽  
Colleen Simpson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Head And Neck Cancer ◽  
Head And Neck ◽  
Neck Cancer ◽  
Health State Utility ◽  
Health State ◽  
Utility Measures
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