Developing the Breast Utility Instrument, a preference-based instrument to measure health-related quality of life in women with breast cancer: Confirmatory factor analysis of the EORTC QLQ-C30 and BR45 to establish dimensions

• Teresa C. O. Tsui ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: teresa.tsui@utoronto.ca

  Affiliations Toronto Health Economics and Technology Assessment (THETA) Collaborative, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Graduate Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

  https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9806-9393

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• Maureen Trudeau,

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Resources, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Odette Cancer Centre, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Nicholas Mitsakakis,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Software, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, Division of Biostatistics, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Sofia Torres,

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Resources, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Karen E. Bremner,

  Roles Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Toronto Health Economics and Technology Assessment (THETA) Collaborative, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Doyoung Kim,

  Roles Data curation, Project administration, Resources

  Affiliation Department of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Aileen M. Davis ,

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ AMD and MDK are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliation Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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• Murray D. Krahn

  Roles Conceptualization, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  ¶‡ AMD and MDK are joint senior authors on this work.

  Affiliations Toronto Health Economics and Technology Assessment (THETA) Collaborative, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Graduate Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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