CMAJ : Canadian Medical Association journal = journal de l'Association medicale canadienne
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Although many Canadian studies have provided disease-specific or patient group-specific utility scores, the utility score norms currently available for the general Canadian population are outdated. Canadian guideline recommendations for the economic evaluation of health technologies advocate for utilities reflecting those of the general population and for stratified analyses when results are heterogeneous; as such, there is also a need for age-, sex- and jurisdiction-specific utility score norms. ⋯ This study provides utility score norms for several age-, sex-and jurisdiction-specific strata in Canada. These results will be useful for future cost-utility analyses and could serve as benchmark values for comparisons with future studies.