Preference-based measure of social participation from the Handicap Scale for Children

Objective: To establish a model that estimates a preference-based measure (valuation) of social participation for children between 8 and 18 years of age from the Handicap Scale for Children (HSC), a validated questionnaire for children with a chronic illness. Methods: Vignettes of the HSC classification system were valued by a representative...

Preferences and choices for care and health insurance

Legislation that came into effect in 2006 has dramatically altered the health insurance system in the Netherlands, placing greater emphasis on consumer choice and competition among insurers. The potential for such competition depends largely on consumer preferences for price and quality of service by insurers and quality of affiliated providers....

Preferenties voor zorg en zorgverzekeraars [Preferences health and health insurers]

Managed competition implies that health insurers negotiate with care suppliers about price and quality of purchased care. An important precondition for workable competition is that consumers are sensitive to both differences in price and quality. Little is known, however, about consumer preferences with respect to medical care purchased by...

Burden of informal caregiving for stroke patients: Identification of caregivers at risk of adverse health effects

Background: We assessed the objective and subjective burden of caregiving for stroke patients and investigated which characteristics of the patient, the informal caregiver and the objective burden contribute most to subjective burden and to the condition of feeling substantially burdened. Methods: We studied a sample of 151 stroke survivors and...

Consequenties van het pbg voor prijzen en hoeveelheden van zorg

Burden of caregiving: Evidence of objective burden, subjective burden, and quality of life impacts on informal caregivers of patients with Rheumatoid Arthritis

What really matters: An inquiry into the relative importance of dimensions of informal caregiver burden

Objective: Prevailing measures of subjective caregiver burden either have no overall summary score or do not consider the relative importance caregivers attach to different dimensions of burden. Our aim was to assess which dimensions informal caregivers perceive as being important to their overall burden from care giving. Design: Cross-sectional...