EPI Update, June 20, 2008

Weekly newsletter for Center For Acute Disease Epidemiology of Iowa Department of Public Health.

A test of the predictive validity of non-linear QALY models using time trade-off utilities

This paper presents a test of the predictive validity of various classes ofQALY models (i.e., linear, power and exponential models). We first estimatedTTO utilities for 43 EQ-5D chronic health states and next these states wereembedded in health profiles. The chronic TTO utilities were then used topredict the responses to TTO questions with health profiles. We find that thepower QALY model clearly outperforms linear and exponential QALY models.Optimal power coefficient is 0.65. Our results suggest that TTO-based QALYcalculations may be biased. This bias can be avoided using a power QALY model.

EPI Update, June 27, 2008

Weekly newsletter for Center For Acute Disease Epidemiology of Iowa Department of Public Health.

EPI Update, July 11, 2008

Weekly newsletter for Center For Acute Disease Epidemiology of Iowa Department of Public Health.

EPI Update, July 4, 2008

Weekly newsletter for Center For Acute Disease Epidemiology of Iowa Department of Public Health.

Executive Order Number Seven, June 27, 2008

This Executive Order establishes an Iowa Task Force to Rebuild Iowa, after the storms and flood in May and June of 2008.

Customer Focus Newsletter, July/August, 2008, Vol. 5, no. 4

A bi-monthly bulletin to keep the department/agency management teams of state government better informed. We hope to consolidate most of the service update messages we send throughout the month and keep you updated about the work of the Customer Councils. If yours is one of the many departments who participated in the second annual DAS customer satisfaction survey recently, we thank you for taking the time to give us this important feedback. We look forward to sharing survey results with you, and pledge to consider responses carefully as we work to determine benchmarks and set future priorities.

Customer Focus Newsletter, May/June, 2008, Vol. 5, no. 3

A bi-monthly bulletin to keep the department/agency management teams of state government better informed. We hope to consolidate most of the service update messages we send throughout the month and keep you updated about the work of the Customer Councils. If yours is one of the many departments who participated in the second annual DAS customer satisfaction survey recently, we thank you for taking the time to give us this important feedback. We look forward to sharing survey results with you, and pledge to consider responses carefully as we work to determine benchmarks and set future priorities.

Governor Culver's Budget Address, January 15, 2008

2008 Condition of the state address as delivered live from Governor Culver. A video link of this speech is location on the governors web site as well as this record.

EPI Update, July 18, 2008

Weekly newsletter for Center For Acute Disease Epidemiology of Iowa Department of Public Health.

Executive Order Number Eight, July 16, 2008

This Executive Order establishes an Independent Contractor Reform Task Force.

2008 Condition of the State Address as Delivered, 2008

Condition of the State Address by Governor Culver.

EPI Update, July 25, 2008

Weekly newsletter for Center For Acute Disease Epidemiology of Iowa Department of Public Health.

Animal Industry News, March 2008, Vol. 9, no. 1

Newsletter produced by Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship about the animal industry in Iowa.

Organic Newsletter, January 2, 2008

A newsletter produced by Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land Stewardship about the changes of organic farming and raising livestock in Iowa.