Donna Rowen

BA, MSc, PhD (Sheffield)

School of Health and Related Research

Professor of Health Economics

Donna Rowen
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d.rowen@sheffield.ac.uk
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Donna Rowen
School of Health and Related Research
Regent Court (ScHARR)
30 Regent Street
Sheffield
S1 4DA
Profile

I joined HEDS as a health economist in September 2006. Prior to joining HEDS I worked as a teaching assistant in Economics at the University of Sheffield whilst undertaking a PhD in Economics.

Research interests
  • Measuring and valuing health and quality of life
  • Measuring and valuing child health
  • Methodology of developing preference-based measures of health from existing measures
  • Mapping between measures to generate utility values

I lead and undertake research and consultancy projects in health economics, particularly relating to deriving health state utility values. I have been involved in the development of several condition-specific preference-based measures from existing instruments including cancer, dementia, diabetes, epilepsy, flushing, common mental health problems and myelofibrosis, and provides advice to the NICE Decision Support Unit. I have also undertaken NICE DSU technical support documents for estimating utilities focussing on mapping and alternative measures to EQ-5D. I have also estimated societal values for burden of illness and end of life as part of EEPRU.

Current projects

My current projects include a study assessing the equivalence of preference elicitation interviews undertaken online and face-to-face to inform the UK valuation of EQ-5D-5L. I am also working on the MACUSTAR project, which involves generating a preference-based measure for dry age-related macular degeneration.

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Conference proceedings papers

  • Kharroubi S, El Harakeh M, Dawoud D, Rowen D & Brazier JE (2022) PCR175 Valuation of SF-6D Health States: Is It Feasible and Acceptable in a Lebanese Population. Value in Health, Vol. 25(7) (pp S574-S574) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Kharroubi S, El Harakeh M, Dawoud D, Rowen D & Brazier JE (2022) VALUATION OF SF-6D HEALTH STATES: IS IT FEASIBLE AND ACCEPTABLE IN A LEBANESE POPULATION. VALUE IN HEALTH, Vol. 25(7) (pp S574-S574) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Terheyden JH, Pondorfer SG, Behning C, Berger M, Rowen D, Carlton J, Holz FG, Butt T, Brazier JE & Finger RP (2021) Psychometric properties of the Vision Impairment in Low Luminance (VILL) questionnaire in age-related macular degeneration in the MACUSTAR study. INVESTIGATIVE OPHTHALMOLOGY & VISUAL SCIENCE, Vol. 62(8) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Bansback N, Mulhern B, Norman R, Trenaman L, Metcalfe R, Sawatzky R, Brazier J, Rowen D & Whitehurst DGT (2020) DEVELOPMENT OF A PREFERENCE BASED SINGLE INDEX FOR THE VR-12 IN CANADA. MEDICAL DECISION MAKING, Vol. 40(1) (pp E53-E54) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Keetharuth A, Brazier JE, Rowen D & Bjorner J (2019) PMH29 ESTIMATING A PREFERENCE-BASE INDEX FROM THE RECOVERING QUALITY OF LIFE MEASURE FOR ECONOMIC EVALUATION IN THE AREA OF MENTAL HEALTH: VALUATION OF REQOL-UI. Value in Health, Vol. 22 (pp S685-S686) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Powell PA, Carlton J, Rowen D, Brazier JE, Chandler F & Godfrey J (2019) PRO130 PROJECT HERCULES: CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW PREFERENCE-BASED MEASURE OF QUALITY OF LIFE FOR DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY (DMD). Value in Health, Vol. 22 (pp S865-S865) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Acaster S, Mukuria C, Rowen D, Brazier J, Wainwright C, Quon B, Duckers J, Quittner AL, Lou Y, Sosnay P & McGarry L (2019) DEVELOPMENT OF THE CYSTIC FIBROSIS QUESTIONNAIRE-REVISED PREFERENCE BASED SCORING ALGORITHM. PEDIATRIC PULMONOLOGY, Vol. 54 (pp S443-S443) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Norman R, Mercieca-Bebber R, Rowen D, Brazier J, Cella D, Pickard AS, Street DJ, Viney R, Revicki D & King M (2019) UK utility weights for the cancer-specific EORTC QLU-C10D: Why, how and when to use?. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 28 (pp S11-S12) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hill H, Rowen D, Pennington B, Wong R & Wailoo A (2019) Are child and adolescent-specific measures used to inform resource allocation decisions? A review of the methods used to generate utility values in NICE technology appraisals for children and adolescents. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 28 (pp S110-S110) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Keetharuth A, Bjorner JB, Rowen D & Brazier J (2019) Using item response theory to construct a health classification system and select health states for valuation for the Preference-Based Index from the Recovering Quality of Life (ReQoL) outcome measure. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 28 (pp S68-S68) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Powell PA, Carlton J, Rowen D, Brazier JE, Chandler F & Godfrey J (2019) PROJECT HERCULES: CONSTRUCTION OF A NEW PREFERENCE-BASED MEASURE OF QUALITY OF LIFE FOR DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY (DMD). VALUE IN HEALTH, Vol. 22 (pp S865-S865) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Powell PA, Carlton J, Rowen D & Brazier JE (2018) PSY215 - MEASURING QUALITY OF LIFE FOR ECONOMIC EVALUATION IN DUCHENNE MUSCULAR DYSTROPHY (DMD) FROM CHILDHOOD TO ADULTHOOD: PROTOCOL FOR A NEW PREFERENCE-BASED MEASURE. Value in Health, Vol. 21 (pp S473-S473) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Rankin J, Rowen D, Howe A, Cleland JG & Whitty JA (2018) PRM190 - METHODS USED TO VALUE HEALTH RELATED QUALITY IN A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW OF COST-UTILITY ANALYSES IN HEART FAILURE. Value in Health, Vol. 21 (pp S388-S389) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Carlton J, Rowen D & Elliott J (2018) The new health and self-management in diabetes (HASMID-10) measure: assessing psychometric performance in a large longitudinal survey. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 27 (pp S39-S39) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Rowen D (2018) Use of preferences to inform healthcare resource allocation. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 27 (pp S14-S14) RIS download Bibtex download
  • (2018) 25th Annual Conference of the International Society for Quality of Life Research. Quality of Life Research, Vol. 27(S1) (pp 1-190) RIS download Bibtex download
  • King MT, Norman R, Kemmler G, McTaggart-Cowan H, Rowen D, Pickard AS & Viney R (2018) Cross-Country Comparison Of Cancer-Specific Multi-Attribute Utility Instruments (Mauis): Relative Weighting And Ranking Of Health-Related Quality Of Life (Hrql) Domains In Country-Specific Utility Algorithms. Value in Health, Vol. 21 (pp S2-S3) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Velikova G, Valderas JM, Potter C, Batchelder L, A’Court C, Baker M, Bostock J, Coulter A, Fitzpatrick R, Forder J , Fox D et al (2017) Proceedings of Patient Reported Outcome Measure’s (PROMs) Conference Oxford 2017: Advances in Patient Reported Outcomes Research. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, Vol. 15(S1) View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Carlton J, Rowen D & Elliott J (2017) The importance of validation and refinement in PROM development: using the HASMID questionnaire, a measure of self-management in diabetes. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 26(1) (pp 124-124) RIS download Bibtex download
  • King MT, Norman R, Mercieca-Bebber R, Rowen D, Bonnet P, Cella D, Pickard AS, Brazier JE, Viney R & Revicki DA (2017) Development of United Kingdom value set for EORTC QLU-C10D: multi-attribute utility classification for the EORTC-QLQ-C30. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 26(1) (pp 50-50) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Elliott J, Carlton J, Rowen D & Brazier J (2017) Changing HbA(1c) units: a hindarance, not a help to patients. DIABETOLOGIA, Vol. 60 (pp S342-S342) RIS download Bibtex download
  • King MT, Norman R, Viney R, Costa D, Brazier J, Cella D, Gamper E, Kemmler G, McTaggart-Cowan H, Peacock S , Pickard AS et al (2016) Two New Cancer-Specific Multi-Attribute Utility Instruments: EORTC QLU-C10D and FACT-8D. Value in Health, Vol. 19(7) (pp A807-A807) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Croudace T, Brazier J, Gutacker N, Street A, Robotham D, Waterman S, Rose D, Satkunanathan S, Wykes T, Nasr N , Enderby P et al (2016) Proceedings of Patient Reported Outcome Measure’s (PROMs) Conference Sheffield 2016: advances in patient reported outcomes research. Health and Quality of Life Outcomes, Vol. 14(Suppl 1), 9 June 2016 - 9 June 2016. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Carlton J, Rowen D, Elliott J, Brazier J, Stevens K, Basarir H & Labeit A (2016) Developing a PROM to evaluate self-management in diabetes (HASMID): giving patients a voice. HEALTH AND QUALITY OF LIFE OUTCOMES, Vol. 14 View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Rowen D, Labeit A, Brazier JE, Stevens K, Elliott J, Mulhern B, Carlton J, Basarir H & Meadows K (2016) Valuing the impact of self-management on quality of life in diabetes using discrete choice experiments. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 25 (pp 134-134) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Costa D, King M, Aaronson N, Brazier J, Cella D, Grimison P, Janda M, McTaggart-Cowan H, Pickard S, Rowen D & Di Sipio T (2014) DO CANCER PATIENTS DISTINGUISH BETWEEN THE IMPORTANCE AND SEVERITY OF THEIR QUALITY OF LIFE CONCERNS?. ASIA-PACIFIC JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY, Vol. 10 (pp 31-31) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Costa DSJ, King MT, Aaronson NK, Brazier JE, Cella D, Fayers PM, Grimison P, Janda M, McTaggart-Cowan H, Norman R , Pallant J et al (2014) THE DEVELOPMENT OF CANCER-SPECIFIC MULTI-ATTRIBUTE UTILITY INSTRUMENTS FROM THE EORTC QLQ-C30 AND FACT-G. ASIA-PACIFIC JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY, Vol. 10 (pp 31-31) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Costa DSJ, King MT, Aaronson NK, Brazier JE, Cella D, Grimison P, Janda M, McTaggart-Cowan H, Pickard AS, Arbuckle R , Rowen D et al (2014) Do cancer patients distinguish between the importance and severity of their quality of life concerns?. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 23 (pp 122-122) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Rowen D, Brazier JE, Keetharuth A, Tsuchiya A, Robinson A & Mukuria C (2014) Comparison of an online survey and face-to-face interviews for eliciting societal preferences. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 23 (pp 49-49) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Batty A, Winn B, Lebmeier M, Rowen D & Lee D (2012) A COMPARISON OF PATIENT AND GENERAL-POPULATION UTILITY VALUES FOR ADVANCED MELANOMA IN HEALTH ECONOMIC MODELLING. VALUE IN HEALTH, Vol. 15(7) (pp A285-A285) RIS download Bibtex download
  • King MT, Costa DSJ, Aaronson NK, Brazier JE, Cella D, Fayers PM, Pallant JF, Peacock S, Pickard S, Rowen D , Velikova G et al (2012) THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERNATIONALLY-VALID CANCER-SPECIFIC MULTI-ATTRIBUTE UTILITY INSTRUMENT (MAUI) FROM THE EORTC CORE HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE (HRQOL) QUESTIONNAIRE, QLQ-C30. ASIA-PACIFIC JOURNAL OF CLINICAL ONCOLOGY, Vol. 8 (pp 335-335) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Young TA, Rowen D, Mukuria C, Brazier JE & Jr LL (2012) Appropriate mapping functions in HRQL: a series of models mapping from FACT-G to EQ-5D. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 21 (pp 11-11) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Jr LL, Yang Y, Brazier JE, Rowen D, Tsuchiya A & Young TA (2012) Valuing a vision 'bolt-on' item for the EQ-5D. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 21 (pp 53-54) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wong CKH, Lam CLK, Rowen D & Wan EYF (2012) Predicting SF-6D preference-based score based on the European Organization for Treatment and Research of Cancer Quality of Life Questionnaire in colorectal cancer. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 21 (pp 84-84) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mulhern B, Tsuchiya A, Brazier JE & Rowen D (2012) How do respondents perceive health state valuation tasks? A 'think aloud' study investigating time trade off and discrete choice experiments. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 21 (pp 53-53) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Batty A, Winn B, Pericleous L, Rowen D, Lee D & Nikoglou T (2012) A COMPARISON OF GENERAL POPULATION AND PATIENT UTILITY VALUES FOR ADVANCED MELANOMA. ANNALS OF ONCOLOGY, Vol. 23 (pp 372-372) RIS download Bibtex download
  • King M, Costa DSJ, Aaronson NK, Brazier J, Cella DF, Fayers P, Pallant JF, Peacock S, Pickard AS, Rowen D , Velikova G et al (2012) THE DEVELOPMENT OF AN INTERNATIONALLY-VALID CANCER-SPECIFIC MULTI-ATTRIBUTE UTILITY INSTRUMENT (MAUI) FROM THE EORTC CORE HEALTH-RELATED QUALITY OF LIFE (HRQOL) QUESTIONNAIRE, QLQ-C30. VALUE IN HEALTH, Vol. 15(4) (pp A225-A225) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Young TA, Brazier JE, Rowen D, Tsuchiya A & Yang Y (2012) The impact of adding a generic dimension to a condition-specific preference-based measure. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 20 (pp 10-10) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wong CKH, Lam CLK, Ma KP, McGhee SM, Law WL, Poon JTC, Chan P, Kwong DLW, Tsang J, Rowen DL & Brazier JE (2012) Mapping the Functional Assessment of Cancer Therapy-General or -Colorectal to Preference-based Values Measured by SF-6D in Patients with Colorectal Neoplasm. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 20 (pp 26-26) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Costa DSJ, King MT, Aaronson NK, Brazier JE, Cella DF, Fayers PM, Pallant JS, Peacock S, Pickard S, Rowen D , Velikova G et al (2012) Adaptation of a method for developing a preference-based measure from a descriptive health-related quality of life measure (HRQOL): a confirmatory versus exploratory approach for the cancer-specific QLQ-C30. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 20 (pp 31-31) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Rowen D, Brazier JE, Tsuchiya A, Young T & Ibbotson R (2012) The impact of condition labelling on health state utility values. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 20 (pp 11-11) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Batty AJ, Fisher D, Winn B, Wang Q, Tolley K & Rowen D (2011) ESTIMATING QUALITY OF LIFE IN ADVANCED MELANOMA; A COMPARISON OF STANDARD GAMBLE, SF-36 MAPPED, AND EORTC QLQ-C30 MAPPED UTILITIES. VALUE IN HEALTH, Vol. 14(7) (pp A461-A462) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brazier J, Rowen D, Tsuchiya A, Young T & Ibbotson R (2011) THE IMPACT OF CONDITION LABELLING ON HEALTH STATE VALUES. VALUE IN HEALTH, Vol. 14(7) (pp A457-A457) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Meadows K, Mulhern B, Rowen D & Brazier J (2011) MAPPING THE DIABETES HEALTH PROFILE (DHP-18) ONTO THE EQ-5D AND SF-6D GENERIC PREFERENCE BASED MEASURES OF HEALTH. VALUE IN HEALTH, Vol. 14(7) (pp A242-A242) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Cruz LN, Camey SA, Hoffmann JF, Brazier J, Rowen D, Fleck MP & Polanczyk CA (2010) ESTIMATING THE SF-6D VALUE SET FOR A POPULATION BASED SAMPLE OF BRAZILIANS. VALUE HEALTH, Vol. 13(7) (pp A240-A240) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Smith SC, Mulhern B, Brazier JE, Lamping DL, Knapp M, Rowen D, Loftus V & Banerjee S (2010) What do people with dementia and their proxies say about HRQL? A quantitative test of qualitative findings. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 19 (pp 14-14) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Rowen D, Mulhern B, Brazier J, Jacoby A, Marson T, Latimer N, Snape D, Baker G & Hughes D (2010) Using the Liverpool Quality of Life battery to develop a health state classification system for Epilepsy. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 19 (pp 57-57) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mulhern BJ, Smith S, Brazier J, Rowen D, Lamping D, Knapp M, Loftus V & Banerjee S (2010) Developing a health state classification system for dementia using Rasch analysis. QUALITY OF LIFE RESEARCH, Vol. 19 (pp 35-36) RIS download Bibtex download

Reports

  • Rowen D, Mukuria C, Powell P, Wong R & Wailoo A (2021) Valuing child health: Exploring the use of a mixed sample of adolescents and adults to value child and adolescent health states RIS download Bibtex download
  • Keetharuth D & Rowen D (2020) Mapping the Health of Nation Outcomes Scale (HoNOS) onto the Recovering Quality of Life Utility Index (ReQoL-UI) View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Rogers HJ, Gilchrist F, Marshman Z, Rodd HD & Rowen D (2020) Selection and validation of a classification system for a child-centred caries-specific utility measure View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Keetharuth D, Rowen D, Bjorner JB & Brazier J (2020) Estimating a Preference-Based Index for mental health from the Recovering Quality of Life (ReQoL) measure: Valuation of ReQoL-UI View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Rowen D, Brazier J, Wong R & Wailoo A (2020) Measuring and valuing health-related quality of life when sufficient EQ-5D data is not available RIS download Bibtex download
  • Rowen D, Keetharuth D, Poku E, Wailoo A, Wong R, Pennington R & Brazier J (2019) A review of the psychometric performance of paediatric preference-based measures used to generate utility values for children RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hill JH, Rowen D, Pennington R, Wailoo A & Wong R (2019) A review of the methods used to generate utility values in NICE technology appraisals for paediatrics RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mukuria C, Rowen D, Peasgood T & Brazier JE (2016) An empirical comparison of well-being measures used in the UK View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • peasgood T, Brazier JE, mukuria C & Rowen D (2014) A conceptual comparison of well-being measures used in the UK. View this article in WRRO RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brazier J & Rowen D (2011) NICE DSU Technical Support Document 11: Alternatives to EQ-5D for generating health state utility values RIS download Bibtex download
  • Longworth L & Rowen D (2011) NICE DSU Technical Support Document 10: The use of mapping methods to estimate health state utility values RIS download Bibtex download

Scholarly editions

  • Mulhern B, Rowen D, Brazier J, Jacoby A, Marson T, Snape D, Hughes D, Latimer N & Baker GA (2010) Developing a health state classification system from NEWQOL for epilepsy using classical psychometric techniques and Rasch analysis: a technical report. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brazier J, Rowen D, Yang Y & Tsuchiya A (2009) Using rank and discrete choice data to estimate health state utility values on the QALY scale. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Rowen D, Brazier J, Tsuchiya A, Hernández M & Ibbotson R (2009) The simultaneous valuation of states from multiple instruments using ranking and VAS data: methods and preliminary results. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Rowen D & Dietrich M Incorporating Ethics into Economics: Problems and Possibilities. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Rowen D & Dietrich M Attitudes and motivations of Economics students: Some recent evidence.. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Rowen D & Dietrich M Are people ethical? An experimental approach. RIS download Bibtex download

Posters

  • Mukuria C, Peasgood T, Brazier J, Rowen D & Norman R (2020) E-QALY: valuing the items for a new generic preference-based measure using time trade-off and discrete choice experiments. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brazier J, Rowen D, Tsuchiya A, Young T & Ibbotson R The impact of conditions labels on health state values. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Keetharuth A, Rowen D, Bjorner J & Brazier J Estimating a Preference-Based Index from the Recovering Quality of Life measure for economic evaluation in the area of mental health: Valuation of ReQoL-UI. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Mukuria C, Dixon S, Rowen D & Hernandez M Examining productivity losses associated with health related quality of life using patient data (2014). RIS download Bibtex download
  • Rowen D, Mulhern B, Vermaire JH & Stevens K Estimating a Dutch value set for the paediatric preference-based CHU-9D using a discrete choice experiment with duration. RIS download Bibtex download

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Research group

I am a member of EEPRU, the Department of Health Policy Research Unit in the Economic Methods of Evaluation of Health and Care Interventions. I am also on the editorial board for Medical Decision Making.

PhD students:

  • Hannah Hussain
  • Haode Wang
Teaching interests

My teaching interests lie in health economics, in particular QALYs, utilities and outcome measurement.

I am interested in supervising research students in topics/areas related to measuring and valuing health, in particular deriving, estimating and using utility data for health technology assessment.