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- Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics
- Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Disability: Definitions and Theories
- Part II Disability in the Beginning and the End of Life
- Part III Disability in the Clinical Setting
- Part IV Equality, Expertise, and Access
- Part V Disability, Intersectionality, and Social Movements
- Part VI Quantifying Disability
- Introduction to Part VI
- 17 Can We Universally Accommodate Mental Health and Should We? A Systematic Review of the Evidence and Ethical Analysis
- 18 Algorithmic Disability Discrimination
- 19 The Pathways Approach to Priority Setting: Considering Quality of Life While Being Fair to Individuals with Disabilities
- 20 Measuring Health-State Utility via Cured Patients
20 - Measuring Health-State Utility via Cured Patients
from Part VI - Quantifying Disability
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 April 2020
- Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics
- Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part I Disability: Definitions and Theories
- Part II Disability in the Beginning and the End of Life
- Part III Disability in the Clinical Setting
- Part IV Equality, Expertise, and Access
- Part V Disability, Intersectionality, and Social Movements
- Part VI Quantifying Disability
- Introduction to Part VI
- 17 Can We Universally Accommodate Mental Health and Should We? A Systematic Review of the Evidence and Ethical Analysis
- 18 Algorithmic Disability Discrimination
- 19 The Pathways Approach to Priority Setting: Considering Quality of Life While Being Fair to Individuals with Disabilities
- 20 Measuring Health-State Utility via Cured Patients
Summary
Many patients’ assessments of quality of life with disability, disease, and reliance on certain treatments become more positive several years into life with these health states. For example, when patients who have been living with colostomies for up to five years are compared to healthy controls and to former colostomy patients whose colostomies were reversed, current patients assign significantly higher utility to living with colostomy. “Adaptation,” as this phenomenon is sometimes called, is prevalent for such diverse health states as paraplegia, deafness, rheumatoid arthritis, various cancer types, reliance on hormone replacement therapy, and reliance on dialysis.
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- Disability, Health, Law, and Bioethics , pp. 266 - 280Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020
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