Establishing disability weights for congenital pediatric surgical conditions: a multi-modal approach

Table 3 Canadian disability weights per tool (n = 78)

Health state	Ranking	VAS	TTO	PC-TTO	PC-GBD
Mild hypospadias (distal)	0.133	0.185	0.037	0.055	0
Undescended testes	0.067	0.164	0.087	0.069	0
Cleft lip with no cleft palate	0.267	0.326	0.213	0.196	0.058
Mild imperforate anus	0.4	0.407	0.296	0.348	0.298
Hirschsprung’s disease AFTER colostomy	0.533	0.385	0.217	0.252	0.146
Severe hypospadias (proximal)	0.2	0.357	0.257	0.221	0.098
Cleft palate with or without cleft lip	0.333	0.448	0.365	0.336	0.280
Mild spina bifida	0.467	0.428	0.272	0.320	0.254
Mild abdominal wall defect	0.733	0.608	0.398	0.447	0.455
Hirschsprung’s disease BEFORE colostomy	0.667	0.618	0.508	0.460	0.475
Hydrocephalus	0.8	0.613	0.627	0.559	0.632
Severe imperforate anus	0.6	0.641	0.589	0.627	0.740
Severe spina bifida	0.867	0.694	0.587	0.620	0.729
Severe abdominal wall defect	0.933	0.834	0.729	0.672	0.812
Intestinal atresia	1	0.885	0.773	0.797	1

VAS visual analogue scale, TTO time trade-off method, X-rank TTO/VAS anchored ranking method, X-PC TTO/VAS anchored paired comparisons method

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