A Review of Quality of Life and Utility Determination Studies for Health Outcomes Research in the Management of Head and Neck Cancer

With multidisciplinary improvements in techniques, technologies, and systemic therapies with multiple approaches to successful outcomes, there is a need to help patients and practitioners understand different healthcare states to tailor treatment to patients' priorities. Utilities are a quality of life metric for patient preference of health states and are essential for cost-effectiveness analysis (CEA). To best inform future CEAs of head and neck squamous cell cancer (HNSCC) with focus on oropharyngeal primaries (OPC) receiving definitive (chemo)radiation, we conducted a systematic review of the literature to identify recent publications that evaluate utilities for posttreatment health states.

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