Schizophrenia Research
Volume 71, Issue 1 , Pages 155-165 , 1 November 2004

Public preferences for health states with schizophrenia and a mapping function to estimate utilities from positive and negative symptom scale scores

  • Leslie A. Lenert

      Affiliations

    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Health Service Research and Development, MC 111-N1, VA San Diego Healthcare System, 3350 La Jolla Village Drive, San Diego, CA 92161, USA. Tel.: +1-858-552-4325; fax: +1-858-552-4321.
    • VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, USA
    • Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
    • ,
  • Ann P. Sturley

      Affiliations

    • Veterans Medical Research Foundation, San Diego, CA, USA
    • ,
  • Mark H. Rapaport

      Affiliations

    • Veterans Medical Research Foundation, San Diego, CA, USA
    • Department of Psychiatry, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center CA, USA
    • ,
  • Shannon Chavez

      Affiliations

    • VA San Diego Healthcare System, San Diego, CA, USA
    • ,
  • Penny E. Mohr

      Affiliations

    • Project Hope, Bethesda, MD, USA
    • ,
  • Marcia Rupnow

      Affiliations

    • Project Hope, Bethesda, MD, USA

Received 29 May 2003 ,Revised 14 October 2003 ,Accepted 29 October 2003.

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PII: S0920-9964(03)00348-7

doi: 10.1016/j.schres.2003.10.010

Schizophrenia Research
Volume 71, Issue 1 , Pages 155-165 , 1 November 2004

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