Clinical studies use a wide variety of health status measures to measure health related quality of life, many of which cannot be used in cost-effectiveness analysis using cost per …
Background A five-level version of the EuroQol five-dimensional (EQ-5D) descriptive system (EQ-5D-5L) has been developed, but value sets based on preferences directly elicited from …
J Brazier, J Connell, D Papaioannou… - Health technology …, 2014 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
BACKGROUND Generic preference-based measures of health like the EQ-5D and SF-6D (®) are increasingly being used in economic evaluation and outcome assessment. However …
Economic evaluation conducted in terms of cost per quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) provides information that decision makers find useful in many parts of the world. Ideally …
Quality-adjusted life-years (QALYs) are widely used as an outcome for the economic evaluation of health interventions. However, preference-based measures used to obtain …
BACKGROUND Regular physical activity (PA) reduces the risk of falls and hip fractures, and mortality from all causes. However, PA levels are low in the older population and previous …
Objectives Generic preference-based measures such as EQ-5D are widely used to estimate quality-adjusted life-years but may not be available or, more importantly, appropriate in …
R Ara, J Brazier - Value in Health, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Objective: The objective of the study was to derive a method to predict a mean cohort EQ‐5D preference‐based index score using published mean statistics of the eight dimension scores …
Background Mapping from health status measures onto generic preference-based measures is becoming a common solution when health state utility values are not directly …