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Citations
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World Ranking
316
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Canada Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Canada Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Canada Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Social Sciences and Humanities in Canada Leader Award

Overview

David Feeny is an academic affiliated with McMaster University in Canada. Their research primarily spans the fields of Health Professions and Economics, Econometrics and Finance, with specific focus on related subfields such as Economics and Econometrics, General Health Professions, Sociology and Political Science, Speech and Hearing, and Cognitive Neuroscience.

Their work prominently addresses topics including Health Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life; Delphi Technique in Research; Geriatric Care and Nursing Homes; Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation; Noise Effects and Management; Hearing, Cochlea, Tinnitus, Genetics; and Healthcare Policy and Management.

Frequent publication venues for Feeny include Value in Health, where they have published five papers, PLoS ONE with three publications, as well as JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society, and Medical Decision Making.

Their recent papers showcase a concentration on quality of life, healthcare use, and physician care patterns. Notable publications include:

  • Health-Related Quality of Life Changes Associated With Hearing Loss, 2020, JAMA Otolaryngology-Head & Neck Surgery
  • Associations between continuity of primary and specialty physician care and use of hospital-based care among community-dwelling older adults with complex care needs, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • Generic Health-Related Quality of Life Utility Measure for Preschool Children (Health Utilities Preschool): Design, Development, and Properties, 2022, Value in Health
  • Physician Home Visit Patterns and Hospital Use Among Older Adults with Functional Impairments, 2020, Journal of the American Geriatrics Society
  • A Scoring Algorithm for Deriving Utility Values from the Neuro-QoL for Patients with Multiple Sclerosis, 2020, Medical Decision Making

Feeny has collaborated frequently with several coauthors, particularly with Shelagh M. Szabo and Katherine Gooch, each appearing six times as coauthors. Other regular collaborators include Susan T. Iannaccone, Peter R. Dixon, and George Tomlinson.

Best Publications

  • Measuring health-related quality of life.

    Gordon H. Guyatt;David H. Feeny;Donald L. Patrick

  • Recommendations for Conduct, Methodological Practices, and Reporting of Cost-effectiveness Analyses: Second Panel on Cost-Effectiveness in Health and Medicine

    Gillian D. Sanders;Peter J. Neumann;Anirban Basu;Dan W. Brock

  • The tragedy of the commons: twenty-two years later.

    David Feeny;I Fikret Berkes;Bonnie J. McCay;James M. Acheson

  • How attractive does a new technology have to be to warrant adoption and utilization? Tentative guidelines for using clinical and economic evaluations

    A Laupacis;D Feeny;A S Detsky;P X Tugwell

  • The Health Utilities Index (HUI®): concepts, measurement properties and applications

    John Horsman;William Furlong;David H. Feeny;George Torrance

  • Multiattribute and single-attribute utility functions for the health utilities index mark 3 system.

    David Feeny;William Furlong;George W Torrance;Charles H Goldsmith

  • Core IS Capabilities for Exploiting Information Technology

    D. F. Feeny;Leslie P. Willcocks

  • Measuring quality of life in children with asthma.

    E. F. Juniper;G. H. Guyatt;D. H. Feeny;D. H. Feeny;P. J. Ferrie

  • Multi-attribute health status classification systems. Health Utilities Index.

    David Feeny;William Furlong;Michael Boyle;George W. Torrance

  • Multiattribute Utility Function for a Comprehensive Health Status Classification System Health Utilities Index Mark 2

    George W. Torrance;David H. Feeny;William J. Furlong;Ronald D. Barr

  • The benefits of the commons

    F. Berkes;D. Feeny;B. J. McCay;J. M. Acheson

  • Utilities and quality-adjusted life years.

    George W. Torrance;David Feeny

  • The Value of Selective IT Sourcing

    Mary C. Lacity;L. P. Willcocks;David Feeny

  • Making the commons work: theory, practice, and policy

    Daniel W. Bromley;David Feeny

  • ISOQOL recommends minimum standards for patient-reported outcome measures used in patient-centered outcomes and comparative effectiveness research

    Bryce B. Reeve;Kathleen W. Wyrwich;Albert W. Wu;Galina Velikova

  • The Health Utilities Index (HUI) system for assessing health-related quality of life in clinical studies.

    William J Furlong;David H Feeny;George W Torrance;Ronald D Barr

  • Measuring quality of life in the parents of children with asthma

    E. F. Juniper;G. H. Guyatt;D. H. Feeny;D. H. Feeny;P. J. Ferrie

  • The effect of elective total hip replacement on health-related quality of life.

    Andreas Laupacis;Robert Bourne;Cecil Rorabeck;David Feeny

  • Multi-attribute preference functions. Health Utilities Index.

    George W. Torrance;William Furlong;David Feeny;Michael Boyle

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  • Health Care Technology: Effectiveness, Efficiency and Public Policy@@@Methods for the Economic Evaluation of Health Care Programmes

    Brian Ferguson;David Feeny;Gordon Guyatt;Peter Tugwell

Frequent Co-Authors

Mark S. Kaplan
Mark S. Kaplan University of California, Los Angeles
Chris M. Blanchard
Chris M. Blanchard Dalhousie University
Nancy A. Ross
Nancy A. Ross Queen's University
Michael H. Boyle
Michael H. Boyle McMaster University
David L. Streiner
David L. Streiner University of Toronto
Paul A. Pilkonis
Paul A. Pilkonis University of Pittsburgh
Baruch Fischhoff
Baruch Fischhoff Carnegie Mellon University
Michael Drummond
Michael Drummond University of York
Robert G. Evans
Robert G. Evans University of British Columbia
Amiram Gafni
Amiram Gafni McMaster University

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