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Health State

A discrete clinical condition assigned to patients within a Markov or similar state-transition model.

Definition

A health state represents a distinct clinical or functional condition that a patient may occupy within a model. Each state is assigned a utility value (for QALY calculation), costs, and transition probabilities to other states. States must be mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive across the model structure.

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1.0.0
Published
4/26/2026
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