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Table 3 Adolescent Pertussis – days or years traded, utilities, and willingness-to-pay to avoid health states

From: Health-state valuations for pertussis: methods for valuing short-term health states

 

Vaccination health states

Disease health states

 

Local reaction

Systemic reaction

Mild cough

Severe cough

Pneumonia

Short-term TTO (N = 94)

     

Days traded

     

   Mean (SD)

17 (46)

29 (61)

55 (117)

90 (162)

79 (114)

   Median [25%–75%]

2 [0–14]

7 [2–28]

25 [7–56]

45 [14–56]

41 [14–70]

Utilities*

     

   Mean (SD)

0.92 (0.19)

0.86 (0.23)

0.78 (0.27)

0.67 (0.33)

0.67 (0.33)

   Median [25%–75%]

0.99 [0.93–1.0]

0.96 [0.85–0.99]

0.87 [0.72–0.96]

0.78 [0.61–0.92]

0.78 [0.61–0.91]

Long-term TTO (N = 81)

     

Years traded

     

   Mean (SD)

2.6 (4.1)

5.5 (5.9)

8.0 (6.7)

11.6 (9.0)

12.0 (9.5)

   Median [25%–75%]

1 [0.1–5]

5 [1–5]

5 [5–10]

10 [5–20]

10 [5–20]

Utilities*

     

   Mean (SD)

0.97 (0.07)

0.93 (0.10)

0.89 (0.12)

0.83 (0.17)

0.82 (0.17)

   Median [25%–75%]

0.99 [0.96–1.0]

0.95 [0.92–0.99]

0.93 [0.87–0.95]

0.88 [0.78–0.94]

0.88 [0.76–0.94]

Willingness-to-pay (N = 183)

     

   Mean (SD)

$18 (58)

$61 (174)

$3,003 (15,889)

$3,981 (16,797)

$4,265 (16,860)

   Median [25%–75%]

$3 [1–13]

$13 [6–38]

$300 [150–1,500]

$750 [225–1,500]

$750 [263–1,500]

  1. *Utilities were calculated assuming the maximum amount of time traded could not exceed the duration of the health state in the adolescent and assuming a discount rate of 3%.